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I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.
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
Buckinghamshire
Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
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And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
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And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.
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I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for they tend to run on rails.
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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
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Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!
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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
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I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
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I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
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Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
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What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
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Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.
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The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.
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The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
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Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, What happens if I do this?
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Shoes, men, coffins never accept the first one you see.
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The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
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