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It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, Well, isn't this nice.
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I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
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Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.
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This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
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It's not lying when you do it to officers!
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Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
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Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.
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