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  • Author Jasper Fforde
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    Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned.

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  • Author Jospeh Conrad
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    I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

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  • Author Joseph Conrad
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    There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

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