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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.
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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.
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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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Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
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Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
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It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.
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Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.
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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
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There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.
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Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.
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Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
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