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This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
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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It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
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Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.
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It's daft, locking us up, said Nanny. I'd have had us killed. That's because you're basically good, said Magrat. The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
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It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
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People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
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Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)
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Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
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But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.
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There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
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No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.
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This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
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There was no himself in himself.
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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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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
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Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
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People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
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Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
Terry Pratchett
All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
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