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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
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It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.
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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
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It's not lying when you do it to officers!
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escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
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What's money interested in? More money.
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Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.
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A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.
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It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .
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But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
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Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like core values at him with impunity.
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It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
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OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
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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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Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving
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