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It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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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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I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
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