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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
— Jasper Fforde Shades of Grey
Tags: wisdom, truth, intelligence

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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.
— Jasper Fforde First Among Sequels
Tags: poetry, humor
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
— Jasper Fforde
Tags: taste, everything, jazz, music
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
— Jasper Fforde
Tags: principle, mankind, anything, work
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
— Jasper Fforde
Tags: interesting, say, comedy, humor
Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.
— Jasper Fforde One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Tags: vanity-publishing, humour, books
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