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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
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Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, Well, isn't this nice.
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You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. So we can believe the big ones? Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
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No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.
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When much is taken, something is returned.
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It was possibly the most circumspect advance in the history of military maneuvers, right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of.
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
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People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.
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Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
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This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.
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The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.
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Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
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I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.
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Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.
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When I am old I shall wear midnight.
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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
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People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
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Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
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