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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
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Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.
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History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
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Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.
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When I am old I shall wear midnight.
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust Mothers of Borogravia! and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.
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In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.
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What's money interested in? More money.
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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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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
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