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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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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.
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It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, he read. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
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Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.
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And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.
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You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
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The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
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You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
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Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
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I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.
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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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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
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I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
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It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.
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It's daft, locking us up, said Nanny. I'd have had us killed. That's because you're basically good, said Magrat. The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.
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Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.
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They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
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Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.
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My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.
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If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
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