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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
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Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.
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Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
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As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.
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The significant owl hoots in the night.
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It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.
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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
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I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to teach the humans?
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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
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What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.
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Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.
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I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.
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Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.
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When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.
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Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.
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