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" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "
Terry Pratchett
Everyone
Feels
Often
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" The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress. "
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" I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope. "
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" I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood. "
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" Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. "
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" My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. "
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" I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. "
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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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" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? "
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" I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. "
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