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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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 tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
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Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
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Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!
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Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.
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Multiple exclamation marks, he went on, shaking his head, are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
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Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
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The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.
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Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.
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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.
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This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
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People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.
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Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
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Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.
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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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