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Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!
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There was no himself in himself.
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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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Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
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What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
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Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.
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Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
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-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
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The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
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Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.
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The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.
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The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.
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Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
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Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
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Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
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Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
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They always gives me bath salts, complained Nobby. And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.
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