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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.

— Jasper Fforde One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

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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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