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" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "
Terry Pratchett
Living
Friends
Hope
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" Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. "
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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. "
Terry Pratchett
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" I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "
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" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "
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" Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. "
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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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" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
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Me
Wild
" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "
Terry Pratchett
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Library
Me
" I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' "
Terry Pratchett
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" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "
Terry Pratchett
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Dog
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Writing
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" Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. "
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You
Chess
Find
" There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist. "
Terry Pratchett
God
Enough
Evidence
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Wisdom
Time
Know
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
View
Waiting
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" In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. "
Terry Pratchett
Forgotten
Ancient
Cats
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Fruit
Think
Best
" It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Eyes
Life
" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "
Terry Pratchett
Speak
Journalism
Life
" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "
Terry Pratchett
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Care
Me
" There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books. "
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" What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
You
Yesterday
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Think
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Time
" The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. "
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Speak
News
Job
" The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "
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Death
Goodbye
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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Know
Like
Sunshine
" I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. "
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Genre
Got
" I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. "
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" The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. "
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" The harder I work, the luckier I become. "
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