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Like any other big government department, it looks good on paper but is an utter shambles. Petty infighting and political agendas, arrogance and sheer bloody-mindedness almost guarantees that the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

— Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair (2001)

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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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