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After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
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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And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.
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The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.
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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
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Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
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There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.
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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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There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.
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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust Mothers of Borogravia! and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.
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Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
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People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
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