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" I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet. "

Terry Pratchett

Ugly

Life

Meet

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Terry Pratchett

Imagination

Wild

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