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One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
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's still magic even if you know how it's done.
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See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.
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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust Mothers of Borogravia! and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.
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Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
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All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be do as you would be done by. It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.
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Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.
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Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.
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