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As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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He's probably their battle poet, too. You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles? No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
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All property is theft, except mine.
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I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.
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As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.
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... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.
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Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
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It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.
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Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
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Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
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It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.
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People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
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...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
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I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
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Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
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It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.
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