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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!
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Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
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There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
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Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
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The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.
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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
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Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
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You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
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He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
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You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
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It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.
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Next comes the realist phase (After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.)
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It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of the page.
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Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'
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Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.
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You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
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