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People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.
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Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
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Multiple exclamation marks, he went on, shaking his head, are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
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There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
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Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!
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Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
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If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
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In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
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The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
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It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
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Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.
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I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.
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If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
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When I am old I shall wear midnight.
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