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I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
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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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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Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
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Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.
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Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
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Freedom without limits is just a word.
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The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.
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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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Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
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Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
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I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
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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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Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.
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I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.
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They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
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