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For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
– Jasper Fforde

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  4. Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. – Jasper Fforde
  5. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. – Richard Diebenkorn
  6. In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery. – CLR James
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  8. Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. – Jasper Fforde
  9. Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it. – Jasper Fforde
  10. So you’re going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now? – Jasper Fforde
  11. I’m sure it’s not all hot ????ered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats. – Jasper Fforde
  12. The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully. – Jasper Fforde
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  14. Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. – Jasper Fforde
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  16. 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
  17. Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own. – Jasper Fforde
  18. 7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated. – Jasper Fforde
  19. People don’t change just because you know more about them. – Jasper Fforde
  20. 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
  21. Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. – Jasper Fforde
  22. Love and magic are like oil and water–they just don’t mix. – Jasper Fforde
  23. The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more. – Jasper Fforde
  24. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good–and we all know how rare that is… – Jasper Fforde
  25. Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. – Jasper Fforde
  26. Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. – Jasper Fforde
  27. Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. – Jasper Fforde
  28. In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash. – Jasper Fforde
  29. Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all. – Jasper Fforde
  30. 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
  31. There’s more to good or bad than what’s written in the Rulebook. – Jasper Fforde
  32. Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances. – Jasper Fforde
  33. 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
  34. The course of true love rarely runs smooth. – Jasper Fforde
  35. Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. – Jasper Fforde
  36. 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
  37. Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception. – Jasper Fforde
  38. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all. – Jasper Fforde
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  40. Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn’t collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs. – Jasper Fforde

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