Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
– Jasper Fforde
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- Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. – Jasper Fforde
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- I’m sure it’s not all hot ????ered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats. – Jasper Fforde
- Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. – Jasper Fforde
- Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books. – Jasper Fforde
- Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. – Jasper Fforde
- Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it. – Jasper Fforde
- So you’re going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now? – Jasper Fforde
- The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully. – Jasper Fforde
- Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. – Jasper Fforde
- That’s the thing about destiny: It can’t be predicted, and it’s usually pretty odd. – Jasper Fforde
- Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won’t, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope – Jasper Fforde
- Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own. – Jasper Fforde
- -¦although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom. – Jasper Fforde
- For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. – Jasper Fforde
- Another one of your quippy japes? – Jasper Fforde
- 7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated. – Jasper Fforde
- People don’t change just because you know more about them. – Jasper Fforde
- Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one. – Jasper Fforde
- Love and magic are like oil and water–they just don’t mix. – Jasper Fforde
- Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something. – Jasper Fforde
- The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. – Jasper Fforde
- True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good–and we all know how rare that is… – Jasper Fforde
- Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. – Jasper Fforde
- Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. – Jasper Fforde
- In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash. – Jasper Fforde
- Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all. – Jasper Fforde
- Believe me, you’re going to have to do much worse than this–in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer–and at your hands. – Jasper Fforde
- There’s more to good or bad than what’s written in the Rulebook. – Jasper Fforde
- Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances. – Jasper Fforde
- I am boring, but I’m ok with it. I’m the anchor, the shoulder…I’m an average man…with a truly extraordinary wife – Jasper Fforde
- The course of true love rarely runs smooth. – Jasper Fforde
- Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. – Jasper Fforde
- You want me to spy on a National Colour operative?”Wow,’ she said, ‘you got it. I thought I was going to have to explain that one for a lot longer. – Jasper Fforde
- Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception. – Jasper Fforde
- Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all. – Jasper Fforde
- Curiosity is a descending stair-¦that leads to only who-knows-where. – Jasper Fforde