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Jasper Fforde is a British novelist, born in London in 1961.
* He worked in the film industry for 20 years before becoming a full-time writer.
* His first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001 and was a critical and commercial success.
* He has since written several more novels, including The Last Dragonslayer, Shades of Grey, and The Nursery Crime series.
* Fforde's books are known for their humor, wordplay, and clever plots.
* He has won several awards for his writing, including the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Dilys Award.
* Fforde lives in Wales with his wife and two children.
* He is currently working on his next novel.

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.

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Books

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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

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Love

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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

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Wisdom

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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

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Humor

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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

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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.

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Life

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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.