“There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...”
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Jasper Fforde is a British novelist known for his unique sense of humor and his skillful blending of reality and fantasy. His works are characterized by complex narrative structures and rich imagination, which have won him a wide readership. more
“You can label jam, you can't label man”
“Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.”
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.”