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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Buckinghamshire
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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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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.
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And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.
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No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].
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A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
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Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!
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One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
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Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
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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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Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.
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Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!
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They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
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Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.
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Granny sighed. You have learned something, she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
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Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
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The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
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Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.
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See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.
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