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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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Beaconsfield
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
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The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.
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If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
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Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.
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And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: Psst!
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And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
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The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.
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Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
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Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!
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