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That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!
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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The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
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I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
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Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.
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For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.
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It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.
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You can't die with an unfinished book.
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A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.
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Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.
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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
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Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
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First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk, your computer, your keyboard, whatever. Something is operating the back of your mind.
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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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Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
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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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These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
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Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.
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But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.
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I hate cats. Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.
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