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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.
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You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
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I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.
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Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.
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It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.
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We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
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OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?
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He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.
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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
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I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.
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My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.
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THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.
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The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.
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It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.
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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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I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do', but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
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Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.
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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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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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