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My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.
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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Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
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Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!
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In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.
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I'm sorry, I just got carried away, hissed Aziraphale.
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I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library I dream of dangerous places.
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Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.
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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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Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce.
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And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
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No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable
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The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.
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Things have no power that humans don't put there.
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Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.
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I think, he said, I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
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Don't you *ever* let go? I haven't yet. Why? I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.
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Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball. Well, that's a lot of... Don't you dare, Sam.
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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.
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