"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

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Source : Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.73, Penguin

Jasper Fforde

#Life Quotes #Real Quotes #Book Quotes

“I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.”
“My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.”
“I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'”
“The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"”
“Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.”
“Being on stage a lot is quite physical.”
“Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.”
“If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.”

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