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    Jasper Fforde
    “Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
    tags: comradeship, love
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: hamlet, indecision, monologues, parody, soliloquies
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
    tags: death, humor
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    Jasper Fforde
    “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, The Well of Lost Plots
    tags: books
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    Jasper Fforde
    “If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: life, world
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth. ”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: books, guns, humor, literature
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
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    Jasper Fforde
    “If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: comeback, humor, shakespeare
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    Jasper Fforde
    “How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark."

    "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday."

    "A whale shark is--sort of."

    "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish."

    "A crayfish isn't a fish."

    "A starfish, then."

    "Still not a fish."

    "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book
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    Jasper Fforde
    “History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
    tags: history, humor
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
    tags: religion, war
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    Jasper Fforde
    “The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition. ”
    ― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
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    Jasper Fforde
    “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.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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    Jasper Fforde
    “The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: fantasy, humor, scifi
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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Douglas Adams
    “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
    tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: learning
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    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
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  • #27
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #28
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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  • #29
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Douglas Adams
    “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: psychology
    1412 likes



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