Thursday Next Quotes

• This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

  Douglas Adams

  Hitchhiking, Thursday, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Proud, Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 153

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• After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

  Jasper Fforde

  Summer, Reading, Healing

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Technology, Looks

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Midnight, Literature, Weak

  "The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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• He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Needs, Attention

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• ...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

  Jasper Fforde

  Landscape, Lord, Form

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• Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

  Jasper Fforde

  Moving, Said, Mime

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• Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

  Jasper Fforde

  Comedy, Genre, Dangerous

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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.

  Jasper Fforde

  Journey, Genre Is, Rivers

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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!

  Jasper Fforde

  Jail, Giving, Soul

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

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• Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

  Jasper Fforde

  Reading, Eggs, Long

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.307, Penguin

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• It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

  Jasper Fforde

  Past, Impossible Things, Scare

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

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