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Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Beaconsfield
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
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Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
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Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.
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The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.
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Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'
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The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
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but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
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If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
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Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.
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Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.
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He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like core values at him with impunity.
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They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
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They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
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The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
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This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.
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Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
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Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead
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If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.
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Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.
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