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" 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
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" I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
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" The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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Me
" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
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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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" I was a very keen reader of science fiction. "
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Science Fiction
Very
" You can't die with an unfinished book. "
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Die
You
" In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "
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Beginning
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" 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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Golden
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" I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. "
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" It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. "
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" Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. "
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You
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" When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that. "
Terry Pratchett
Place
Backwards
Eyes
" You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake. "
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" The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine. "
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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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" Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. "
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" Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done. "
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" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "
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" Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. "
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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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" 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. "
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" There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. "
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