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Jasper Fforde

"Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them."

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"Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them."

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Akiroq Brost

"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

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Akiroq Brost

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

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"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

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"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

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"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."

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"My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here."

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Akiroq Brost

"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."

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"Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. "The ChronoGuard has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible." "Good thing, too," reply Landon. "It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't."
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"I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind."
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"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand, pen mighter than the sword and so forth."
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"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."
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"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."
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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."
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"Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances."
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"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife."
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"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."
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