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" I was a very keen reader of science fiction. "
Terry Pratchett
Science
Science Fiction
Very
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" An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. "
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" 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 was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. "
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" I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system. "
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" Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
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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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" Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. "
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" They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. "
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They Say
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" 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. "
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" It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. "
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" 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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" 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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" I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. "
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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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" Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government. "
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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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" No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes. "
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" I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. "
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" For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. "
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" 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. "
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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 do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while. "
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