Jasper Fforde Quotes - Page 5

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• "Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."

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  Needs, Asking, Unanswered Questions

  "Shades of Grey". Book by Jasper Fforde, December 29, 2009.

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• I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

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  Curiosity, Doubt, I Don't Need You

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

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  Dream, Believe, Night

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.

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  Years, Names, Careers

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• I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

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  Believe, Eight, Years

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• He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

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  Rebel, Cojones, Zeus

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.130, Penguin

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• Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

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  Fun, Fiction, Share

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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• I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

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  Eggs, Officers

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• He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

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  Dad, Fire, Done

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• Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

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  Greed, Done, Cash

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, 2001.

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• This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.

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  Sibling, Self, Personality

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• How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

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  Pigs, People, House

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.30, Penguin

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• Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

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  Journey, Genre Is, Rivers

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• Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

  Jasper Fforde

  People

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• Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

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  Taken, Yardsticks, Sometimes

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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• What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.

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  Live Life, Forgiving, Too Short

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• Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

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  Black And White, Life And Death, Decision

  Jasper Fforde (2013). “The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots”, p.254, Hachette UK

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• We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.

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  Eggs, White, Machines

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

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  Jail, Giving, Soul

  "The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next". Book by Jasper Fforde, May 1, 2009.

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• For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

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  Bird, Taste, Bits

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

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  Garden, Six Months, Hackers

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

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  Laughing, Survival, Cracks

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• Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

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  Fashion, Religious, Philosophical

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

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  Book, Giving, Library

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures 1”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

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  Ideas, East, Matter

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.315, Hachette UK

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