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A third faction who called them selves “simplists” argued that there was a single fundamental rule the governed all story: if it works, it works.

— Jasper Fforde

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More quotes by Jasper Fforde

To fail spectacularly is a loser’s paradise.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

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)

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about.

Something Rotten (2004)

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