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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.
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We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
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Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
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It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
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By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it.
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Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.
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This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
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There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.
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They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!
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I'm sorry, I just got carried away, hissed Aziraphale.
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His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
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Man just went past with a cat on his head.
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It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.
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An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
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Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
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Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
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There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.
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In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
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Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.
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