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When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.
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I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?
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They always gives me bath salts, complained Nobby. And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?
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They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
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Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
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It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
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Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
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We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?
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And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!
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If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
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Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.
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