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A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.
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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
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He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.
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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
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And what would humans be without love? Rare, said Death.
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... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.
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The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
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Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
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There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
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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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Multiple exclamation marks, he went on, shaking his head, are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
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I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
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I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.
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There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.
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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.
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There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
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When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.
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