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I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.
Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third Thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves. They’re rare, and often troublesome. Listening to them is part of witchcraft.
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All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
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Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.
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Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.
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My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
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In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?
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You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
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They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.
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In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.
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Progress just means bad things happen faster.
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Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
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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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It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, he read. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
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If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!
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In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods they have not forgotten this.
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Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.
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Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
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