"Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does…" — Jasper Fforde
"Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us."
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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these…
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
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