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When much is taken, something is returned.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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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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When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!
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All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
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Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.
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Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
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Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
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TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
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Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.
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Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!
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She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
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She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief that is what they are for.
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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
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He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.
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Cake is not the issue here.
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Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
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(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.
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