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Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.
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This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.
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While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.
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Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.
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escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
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There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.
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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
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The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.
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Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
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Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.
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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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She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.
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In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.
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People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
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You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
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The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.
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Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.
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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.
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