"The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit;……" — Jasper Fforde
"The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable."
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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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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance.…
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If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
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Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them…
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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
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I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about…
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
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