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" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "

Terry Pratchett

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" Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. "

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" 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. "

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" 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? "

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" I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's. "

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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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" 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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" Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. "

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" I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going. "

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" I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. "

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" There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. "

Terry Pratchett

" Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.' "

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" When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. "

Terry Pratchett

" You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. "

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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. "

Terry Pratchett

" Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' "

Terry Pratchett

" Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. "

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" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "

Terry Pratchett

Sooner Or Later

" My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. "

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" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "

Terry Pratchett

" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

" In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. "

Terry Pratchett

" I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. "

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" There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town. "

Terry Pratchett

" Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. "

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" If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. "

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" Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. "

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" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "

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Science Fiction

" 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 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. "

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" In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "

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