"Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no……" — Jasper Fforde
"Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them."
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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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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of…
— Annie Besant
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Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their…
— Eric Alterman
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Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe…
— Andrew Carnegie
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No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is…
— Cynthia Tucker
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift;…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
— Lysander Spooner
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For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying,…
— Martin Luther
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Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread…
— Wilder Penfield
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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed,…
— Dorothy Day
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This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace unto sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange, our sins are…
— Martin Luther
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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