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Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.
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I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!
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A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
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Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!
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Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
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Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.
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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
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escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
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If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
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Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
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Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.
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I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.
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You are very clever, said the old man shyly. I would like to eat your brains, one day.
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