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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
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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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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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Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
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Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
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I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.
Terry Pratchett
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.
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And what would humans be without love? Rare, said Death.
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Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
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After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
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We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
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Humans can think inhuman thoughts.
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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.
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Time was something that largely happened to other people he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.
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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
Terry Pratchett
Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.
Terry Pratchett
It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.
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