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Jasper Fforde

"Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech."

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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Donna Grant

"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."

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Donna Grant

"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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Jasper Fforde
"True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."

Morality

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Jasper Fforde
"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."

Reality

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Jasper Fforde
"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."

Meaning

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Jasper Fforde
"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

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Jasper Fforde
"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

Reading

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Jasper Fforde
"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."

Identity

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Jasper Fforde
"I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery."

Ethics

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Jasper Fforde
"In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash."

Silence

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Jasper Fforde
"Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands."

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Jasper Fforde
"I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you."

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