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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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Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Terence David John Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett
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There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
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Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
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...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
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I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
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And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.
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The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.
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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!
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This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.
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What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
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If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
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Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
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If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
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All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
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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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Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.
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She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.
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Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
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Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
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