"The government was to raise the duty on……" — Jasper Fforde
"The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops."
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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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More Cheese Quotes
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one of 540 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every…
— Ellen Barkin
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for…
— Gina Barreca
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I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want…
— Drew Barrymore
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel…
— Jack Black
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when…
— Anthony Bourdain
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
— Bertolt Brecht
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is…
— Malin Akerman
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For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh…
— Steve Albini
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Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts,…
— Nolan Bushnell
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a…
— Nolan Bushnell
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