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" 'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. "

Terry Pratchett

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" Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. "

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" There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. "

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" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "

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" In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is. "

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" I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. "

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" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "

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" Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. "

Terry Pratchett

" 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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" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "

Terry Pratchett

" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "

Terry Pratchett

" I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. "

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" I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. "

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" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "

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" I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. "

Terry Pratchett

" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

" The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. "

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" In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. "

Terry Pratchett

" The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. "

Terry Pratchett

" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "

Terry Pratchett

" It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. "

Terry Pratchett

" I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is. "

Terry Pratchett

" 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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" I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense. "

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" 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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" The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. "

Terry Pratchett

" I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. "

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" I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up. "

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" It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. "

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" As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book. "

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