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"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."
"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
Explore more quotes by Jasper Fforde
"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."
"Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."
"I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live."
"When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a bearing that showed inner strength and resolve. I stared at her intently with a mixture of feelings. I had realised not long ago that I was no beauty, and even at the age of nine had seen how the more attractive children gained favour more easily. But here in that young woman I could see how those principles could be inverted. I felt myself stand more upright and clench my jaw in subconscious mimicry of her pose."
"Pretty?' I said, swivelling in the driver's seat to face him, 'you want to ask me out because I'm pretty?' 'Is there a problem with asking you out because you're pretty?' 'I think you blew it,' said Tiger with a grin. 'You should be asking her out because she's smart, witty, mature beyond her years and every moment in her company makes you want to be a better person - pretty of face should be at the bottom of the list.' 'Oh, blast,' said Perkins despondently. 'It should, shouldn't it?"
"The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor."
"All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause."
"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
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