"How many people want to read about three……" — Jasper Fforde
"How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?"
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde has 159 quotes on this site.
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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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More Demolition Quotes
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the…
— Abdallah II
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A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the…
— Germaine Greer
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel,…
— John Galsworthy
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Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.
— Harvey Mackay
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In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.
— Rumi
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Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.
— Daniel Greenberg
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It is a human demolition derby!
— Jim Ross
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Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking…
— Steven Pressfield
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THE DEMOLITION OF A TEMPLE IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME, as it cannot walk away from its place.
— Aurangzeb
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Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.
— Kamahl
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There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom…
— Stanislaw Lem
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