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Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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When in doubt, choose to live.
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But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.
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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
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That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!
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You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.
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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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He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.
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If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
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Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
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Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
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Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
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If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.
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Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
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I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
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Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
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