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You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!
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It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
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