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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
Always
Waiting
Darkness
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Finish
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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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" You can't die with an unfinished book. "
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" Freedom without limits is just a word. "
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" Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. "
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Than
Better
" 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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" The harder I work, the luckier I become. "
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Luckier
" 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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Professional
I Can
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" I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off. "
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Side
Head
" 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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Gods
Copper
" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "
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Useful
Go
Out
" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "
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Wrong
" We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still. "
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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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Garden
Library
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" I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz. "
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Like
Jazz
Wide
" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
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Sign
Sure
Marks
" 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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Rage
People
" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "
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" I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. "
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" If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. "
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Reading
Start
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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. "
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Place
Backwards
Eyes
" The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. 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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Think
" There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. "
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Some People
Some
" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "
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Time
Know
" 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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" 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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