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You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.
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Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
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The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.
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It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.
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The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.
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You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.
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And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.
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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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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
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Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
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There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
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I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire, said Miss Tick. There may be no survivors.
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It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
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TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
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Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this?
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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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