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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
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I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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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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I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.
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Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.
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First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
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In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
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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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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
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History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.
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Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
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Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians
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It's daft, locking us up, said Nanny. I'd have had us killed. That's because you're basically good, said Magrat. The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
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In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.
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No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.
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