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" I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. "
Terry Pratchett
Now
Waited
Perform
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" I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. "
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" It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing. "
Terry Pratchett
Doing
Rather
Someone
" He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' "
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Who
Gods
Copper
" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "
Terry Pratchett
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They Say
Bad
" It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death. "
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Bad
People
Most
" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "
Terry Pratchett
Speak
Journalism
Life
" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "
Terry Pratchett
Science Fiction
Astronomy
Science
" Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon. "
Terry Pratchett
Myself
Sometimes
Work
" This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "
Terry Pratchett
Fast Lane
Fast
Lane
" 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
Trouble
Trying
People
" 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
Think
Men
Boat
" You can't die with an unfinished book. "
Terry Pratchett
Book
Die
You
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Past
Living
Die
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
Me
Someone
" Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' "
Terry Pratchett
You
Know
Me
" In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man. "
Terry Pratchett
Rich
Bath
Heart
" I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. "
Terry Pratchett
Believe
Die
Serious
" 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
" I like being a writer. "
Terry Pratchett
Writer
Like
Being
" Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. "
Terry Pratchett
Wonderful
Government
Angry
" 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
Imagination
Me
Wild
" 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
You
Words
Hard
" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Beginning
You
" If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. "
Terry Pratchett
Past
Dead
Government
" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
Terry Pratchett
Sign
Sure
Marks
" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "
Terry Pratchett
Living
Friends
Hope
" The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. "
Terry Pratchett
Number
Intelligence
People
" Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. "
Terry Pratchett
Stage
Matter
Character
" The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? "
Terry Pratchett
Getting Older
Family
Society
" There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
Like
Sunshine