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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians
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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
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If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
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The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
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Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.
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And gears, said Anathema. My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears. Crowley leaned over to the angel. Oh lord, heal this bike, he whispered sarcastically. I'm sorry, I just got carried away, hissed Aziraphale.
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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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Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
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I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'
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I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.
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They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
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This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.
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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
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Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.
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No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.
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In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.
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We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.
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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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