"The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable."

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Source : Jasper Fforde (2010). “Shades of Grey”, p.51, Hachette UK

Jasper Fforde

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“I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.”

Source : "Sincerely Yours, John Cusack". Interview with Steven Goldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1990.
“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”
“I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.”
“Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to which Jesus Christ looked forward. Christ founded no church, established no state, gave practically no laws, organized no government and set up no external authority, but he did seek to write on the hearts of men God's law and make them self-legislating.”

Source : "Free Speech for Radicals". Book by Theodore Schroeder, p. 7, 1916.
“Amy Cahill didn't believe in omens. But black snow was falling, he earth was rumbling beneath her feet, her brother was meowing, and her uncle Alistair was prancing on the beach in pink pajamas. She had to admit, the signs were not promising.”

Source : Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #7: The Viper's Nest”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.
“All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.”
“Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.”

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