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Never f*!k with the ineffable.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
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And what would humans be without love? Rare, said Death.
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Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
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The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
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I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.
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When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!
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Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.
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When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
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People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.
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When I am old I shall wear midnight.
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In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods they have not forgotten this.
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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.
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