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Quotes from One of Our Thursdays is Missing — Jasper Fforde

born 1961 Wales

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8 quotes

To fail spectacularly is a loser’s paradise.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

The idea that people actually do this because they like it strikes me as double insanity with added insanity.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

“Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling,” said Square. “If it weren’t so commonplace, it would seem miraculous—like much out here, to be truthful.”

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

The good thing about being in the BookWorld is that we aren’t hampered by anything as awkward as physical laws. The RealWorld must be hideously annoying to do science in.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

“Did she believe you?”
“She’s an excellent journalist—of course not.”

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

I didn’t know much about Conspiracy, but I did know that its theorists were mostly paranoid and tended to value conviction above evidence.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

About ten degrees upslope of Fiction, I could see our nearest neighbor: Artistic Criticism. It was an exceptionally beautiful island, yet deeply troubled, confused and suffused with a blanketing layer of almost impenetrable bullshit.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jasper Fforde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.