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Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Beaconsfield
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett
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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
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Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
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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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There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?
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If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.
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Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
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It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]
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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
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Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.
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Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.
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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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but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
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Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
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It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
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When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
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