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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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But you ain't part of it, are you? said Granny conversationally. You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?
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Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
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I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
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If Not You, Who Else?
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If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
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But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.
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What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
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Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.
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Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.
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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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Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
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Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.
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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
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-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
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Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.
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I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
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The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
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Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.
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