"A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal……" — Jasper Fforde
"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 sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive."
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
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Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a…
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw…
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but…
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head…
— Sholom Aleichem
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these…
— Unknown Author
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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