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Them Quotes by Jasper Fforde
- People don't change just because you know more about them.
- Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
- Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
- Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's…
- Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
- Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?'…
- A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and…
- He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I…
- Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.…
- Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those…
- There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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