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Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
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For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.
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Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant? Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.
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After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
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Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.
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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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There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
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I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
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Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.
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The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
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Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.
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Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.
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The significant owl hoots in the night.
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An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
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I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.
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