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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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I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.
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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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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
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Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
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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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Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
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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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I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire, said Miss Tick. There may be no survivors.
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If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.
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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
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There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
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Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
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Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.
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Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
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The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
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Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. Hi, Nigel read aloud, Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity.
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When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.
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