На самом деле я подумывал написать самоучитель для фантастов, собирающихся писать о путешествиях во времени. Он состоял бы из двух слов: «Не надо».


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ALBINOS DEMAND ACTION ON MOVIE SLUR The albino community demanded action yesterday to stop their unf...
JASPER FFORDE
If you drive at precisely twenty-nine miles per hour, the rumble strips play ‘Jerusalem’ on the ...
JASPER FFORDE
Think of this: If it weren’t for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no w...
JASPER FFORDE
I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
JASPER FFORDE
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack.
'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and ...
JASPER FFORDE
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
JASPER FFORDE
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towar...
JASPER FFORDE
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of
antiquarian books.
'Imp...
JASPER FFORDE
Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
JASPER FFORDE
The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Ru...
JASPER FFORDE
So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?
JASPER FFORDE
Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may b...
JASPER FFORDE
Are you okay?" asked Finisterre.
"Annoyed," I said, giving him my hand so he could heave me to ...
JASPER FFORDE
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
JASPER FFORDE
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the li...
JASPER CARROTT
I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Soli...
JASPER CARROTT
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfactio...
JASPER CARROTT
If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you'd probably g...
JASPER CARROTT
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor m...
JASPER JOHNS
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any...
JASPER JOHNS
There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chas...
JASPER CARROTT
When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme ca...
JASPER CARROTT
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very ...
JASPER JOHNS
After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You...
JASPER CARROTT
[To survive has required tenacity. Koreans are reported even to have murdered children and mixed the...
JASPER BECKER
When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but t...
JASPER CARROTT
My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in anoth...
JASPER JOHNS
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
JASPER JOHNS
My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That&#...
JASPER CARROTT
Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night ...
JASPER CARROTT
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a paint...
JASPER JOHNS
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thi...
JASPER JOHNS
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew t...
JASPER JOHNS
When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jok...
JASPER CARROTT
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remov...
JASPER JOHNS
There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your d...
JASPER CARROTT
Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensit...
JASPER BECKER
The internet is a perfect example of a beautiful mess.
JASPER HARTSUIJKER
I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute M...
JASPER CARROTT
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newsp...
JASPER CARROTT
It's kind of like the old Barry Sanders Rule. The first person to him wouldn't take a shot at him. F...
ED JASPER
Am i on some distant battle field you say? No, I am but in my own mind and dreams replaying the batt...
JASPER WILKERSON
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.
JASPER CARROTT
I tend to like things that already exist.
JASPER JOHNS
The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested inte...
JASPER CARROTT
When you're playing every snap, the problem is you can't give 110 percent on every play.
ED JASPER
I spent last year with [former Eagles defensive end Derrick] Burgess in Oakland, and he misses this ...
ED JASPER
We need people. We got money. We don't have people.
ED JASPER
[Gosh can one guy, I mean, only one, change a team so completely? Evidently he can. Yeah, I could qu...
ED JASPER
That's one of the main reasons he deserves this (Pro Bowl). Teams are having to change their blockin...
ED JASPER
Because it's easy to play defense like this. It's harder when the other team has 10 minutes more of ...
ED JASPER
He's a backside runner. If he catches you running to the ball, he'll make you pay for it. Him making...
ED JASPER
I bull-rushed the guy. He tackled me. The ref threw the flag, late. So I'm thinking he's calling hol...
ED JASPER
It's a shame the way that game turned out because Tommy deserves more recognition than he's going to...
ED JASPER
My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the ...
JASPER CARROTT
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work ...
JASPER JOHNS
My Gullah grandfather is bringing a bag of dust to a vampire war. I feel better.
ELLE JASPER
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then ...
JASPER JOHNS
Mine,” he whispered against my mouth. He kissed me again. “You are mine.”
In the ...
ELLE JASPER
If Nelson keeps working at things and keeps believing in himself, he can go a long way.
JASPER WILLIAMS
That's the only negative about this. These kids have been working hard all year for a win like this....
JASPER WILLIAMS
This was a big win for us. We stepped up and played with a lot of energy tonight. We made some turno...
JASPER WILLIAMS
The biggest thing is that we out rebounded them. We did a pretty good job on the boards. We pressure...
JASPER WILLIAMS
I was just listening to my coach. He told me to quit thinking about my shot and just shoot it n let ...
JASPER WILLIAMS
We didn't execute down the stretch. We didn't rebound during key possessions and that cost us the ga...
JASPER WILLIAMS
This is definitely a step for Yahoo, and a step for the industry.
JASPER MALCOLMSON
Industry-best prices will actually show up in Yahoo search results. We have created a search engine ...
JASPER MALCOLMSON
I had a good year, but those guys had good years, too. It could have gone to any of us. I know it wa...
JASPER JOHNSON
We're trying to do something that no other team at the school has done. We have a nice run going. We...
JASPER JOHNSON
I have no reason to feel bitter or think about anything in the past. This is the best place I can be...
JASPER JOHNSON
I felt comfortable around the guys. I felt it would be a good place for me. ... I respect Coach Rive...
JASPER JOHNSON
The competition is better than I thought it'd be. And I'm glad of it. I just like to play, and when ...
JASPER JOHNSON
Ideas either come or they don't come.
JASPER JOHNS
We have a lot of good players returning from last year and our recruiting class is excellent. I will...
JASPER EDWARDS
I really admire Rickey Bustle because he kept us up when everybody's head was down. He came in and s...
JASPER EDWARDS
I wasn't there for spring drills last year, and they had me working out at wide receiver. During the...
JASPER EDWARDS
At football practices the coaches and the players are really into it. The coaches are very hands-on ...
JASPER EDWARDS
It's part of a pattern at the Post where they're gradually been getting rid of all the people who wr...
JASPER BECKER
It's been successfully cheating its way with its nuclear program for something like 20 years, so I t...
JASPER BECKER
[Details of that extravagance are drawn from Kim's former lackeys.] For all the immense privileges e...
JASPER BECKER