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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
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Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'
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Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.
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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
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But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.
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People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as Is this the laundry? How do you spell surreptitious? and, on a regular basis, Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.
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You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
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She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.
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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
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The best research you can do is to talk to people.
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There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.
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Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
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Insanity is catching.
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He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.
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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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I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.
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What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.
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All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
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The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.
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