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There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
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Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
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The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.
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Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.
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As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
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There will be justice, said Brutha. If there is no justice, there is nothing.
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