"…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you……" — Jasper Fforde
"…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird."
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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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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere…
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Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army…
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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe…
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In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power…
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If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong,…
— George Washington
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Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are,…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences,…
— Christine de Pizan
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By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold,…
— Democritus
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can…
— Peter Lynch
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In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
— Ian Peebles
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