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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant, said Blouse. Right you are, sir! said the sergeant. Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall! He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: But not too hard!
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In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.
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What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
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And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
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Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
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Don't you understand? snarled Rincewind. We are going over the Edge, godsdammit! Can't we do anything about it? No! Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly.
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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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 my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.
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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
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There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.
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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
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There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
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It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
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History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.
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She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
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Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.
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The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
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I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
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