On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast were on strike for more blinis.

Jasper Fforde


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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad
"Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

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

Jasper Fforde

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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.

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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

Jasper Fforde

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[I]appreciate a woman who knows when she's being coerced

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Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

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