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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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Beaconsfield
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
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Out of Print is bookseller speak for We can't be hedgehogged.
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I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
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Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
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Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
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You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
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It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
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First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.
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Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.
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His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
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