Ten quotes by Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death. Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants — the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.
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No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away… The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence.
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Real stupidity will beat artificial intelligence every time.
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Silence slammed in like a thunderclap.
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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
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You make holy water by boiling the hell out of normal water.
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