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Terry Pratchett


English
April 28, 1948
Author
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Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.


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Tags: Someone Later Dog
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.


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Tags: Money Just Way
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I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.


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This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.


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Tags: Life Fast Traffic
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.


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Tags: You Going Die
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Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.


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If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.


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Tags: Money Really Know
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.


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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
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Tags: Best You Think
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
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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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Tags: You Know Things
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
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Tags: Because Our Many
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.
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Tags: Me About Think
There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
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Tags: Like Up Know
I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
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Tags: People Who Know
I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
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Tags: God War He
'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.
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I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
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Tags: Work Like Get
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
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Tags: Time You Know
I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.
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Tags: Up Which Some
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
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Tags: You Just Who
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
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Tags: Alone You People
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
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Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
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Tags: Time Me Been
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
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Tags: Work Just Only
I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.
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Tags: Change Think Out
I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
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The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.
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We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
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I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.
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You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
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