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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
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Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, The mountain is, and is not. They would think, The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
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We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
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If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
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She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
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Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
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Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.
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You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.
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If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
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They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
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Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.
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Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this?
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That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.
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Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man he had the Vote.
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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
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