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Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.
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DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.
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If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
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He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.
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We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.
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If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
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TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
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People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as Is this the laundry? How do you spell surreptitious? and, on a regular basis, Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
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She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief that is what they are for.
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And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
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Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
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THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.
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You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.
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You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
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Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?
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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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You can't die with an unfinished book.
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