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There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it gives it an added dimension.
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If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
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All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.
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The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord. Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.
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Things just happen. What the hell.
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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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My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.
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That, lad, he said proudly, was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!
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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
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Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!
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People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
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As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.
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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.
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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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You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.
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If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
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Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
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Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.
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