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They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
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And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.
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This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)
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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
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I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.
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I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.
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IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants? YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.
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The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
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First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.
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I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.
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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
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What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
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One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
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When in doubt, choose to live.
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Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.
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Don't you *ever* let go? I haven't yet. Why? I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.
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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
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We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
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