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Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
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As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.
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The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.
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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
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There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.
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But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
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Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
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And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.
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No one remembers the singer. The song remains.
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When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
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Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.
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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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The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.
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Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.
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One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
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Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it. No, actually it isn't, said Tiffany. Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
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There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
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Everything is a test.
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I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
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