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Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
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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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It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
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Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.
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I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.
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I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
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