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Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ. —Death

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
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A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.
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You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.
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Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving
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Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'
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If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.
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They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
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The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.
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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
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People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
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This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
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All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.
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There is always time for another last minute
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(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.
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You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
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Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
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No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable
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