“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”

— Jasper Fforde , book The Well of Lost Plots

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Jasper Fforde 75

British novelist 1961

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007) Novelist, short story writer, literary critic

Guilt, Character, Possibilities" (p. 235)
American Fictions (1999)

“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.