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Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.
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I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
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Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant? Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.
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They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
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Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
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This was the definition of eternity it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
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The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord. Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.
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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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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
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I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.
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Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
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You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.
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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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Quit while you're a head, that's what I say.
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First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.
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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
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Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
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