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TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Terence David John Terry Pratchett
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These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
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He's probably their battle poet, too. You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles? No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.
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When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.
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One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
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Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead!
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Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
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First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.
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Things just happen. What the hell.
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I'm sorry, I just got carried away, hissed Aziraphale.
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You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.
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You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
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I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.
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I'd like to walk on the moon (and return).
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
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