"Literature is claimed to be a mirror of……" — Jasper Fforde
"Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration."
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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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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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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
— Allan Bloom
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything…
— Victor Borge
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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