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Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
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
Terence David John Pratchett
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Sir Terence David John Pratchett
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People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.
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There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
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Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.
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I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.
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In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.
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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
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Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.
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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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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.
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Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
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When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
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Next comes the realist phase (After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.)
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There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
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Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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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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Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
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