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Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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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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You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.
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Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
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If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!
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You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.
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Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
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The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
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Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.
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People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
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People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes.
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.
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Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
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Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart
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The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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