…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

Jasper Fforde
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  1. Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

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