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I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
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
Terence David John Pratchett
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I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
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After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
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Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
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If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
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I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?
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All property is theft, except mine.
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So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.
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Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
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You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
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A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.
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It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.
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Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?
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But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.
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Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
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I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.
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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
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Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.
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