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First Among Sequels

Jasper Fforde

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”

“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”

“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”

“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

“Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.”

“Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. ”

“It's simple. If you go to see 'Saturday Night Fever' expecting it to be good, it's a corker. However, if you go expecting it to be a crock of shit, it's that, too. Thus 'Saturday Night Fever' can exist in two mutually opposing states at the very same time, yet only by the weight of our expectations. From this principle we can deduce that any opposing states can be governed by human expectation - even, as in the case of retro-deficit-engineering, the present use of a future technology." "I think I understand that. Does it work with any John Travolta movie?" "Only the artistically ambiguous ones such as 'Pulp Fiction' or 'Face/Off.' 'Battlefield Earth' doesn't work, because it's a stinker no matter how much you think you're going to like it, and 'Get Shorty' doesn't work either, because you'd be hard-pressed not to enjoy it, irrespective of any preconceived notions.”

“Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.”

“There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.”

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Book Keywords:

humor, comradeship, fiction, time-travel, death, love, stories, human-nature, nostalgia, imagination, hypothetical-situation, poetry, books

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