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… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.
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Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this?
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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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Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .
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Occasionally he would very nearly swear.
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Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.
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My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.
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I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.
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In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
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Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
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Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.
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Things just happen. What the hell.
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Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
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It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.
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The significant owl hoots in the night.
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