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" Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. "
Terry Pratchett
Fail
Opera
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" One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff. "
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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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" You can't die with an unfinished book. "
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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" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "
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Astronomy
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" The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. "
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" Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine. "
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You
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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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" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
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" I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course. "
Terry Pratchett
Know
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Someone
" 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. "
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Through
See
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" Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. "
Terry Pratchett
Most
You
Writing
" Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. "
Terry Pratchett
Speak
Journalism
Life
" It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one. "
Terry Pratchett
Useful
Go
Out
" I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large. "
Terry Pratchett
God
Golden
Golden Rule
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Progress
Finish
Day
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Reading
Start
History
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Death
Believe
Tears
" Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. "
Terry Pratchett
You
Words
Hard
" 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? "
Terry Pratchett
Garden
Library
Say
" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "
Terry Pratchett
Sooner Or Later
Someone
Dog
" I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' "
Terry Pratchett
City
Think
Start
" My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. "
Terry Pratchett
Drive
End
Know
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Believe
Die
Serious
" I was a very keen reader of science fiction. "
Terry Pratchett
Science
Science Fiction
Very
" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "
Terry Pratchett
Everyone
Feels
Often
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Death
Goodbye
Think
" Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. "
Terry Pratchett
Many
Everything
Disagree
" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "
Terry Pratchett
Prove
Care
Me
" I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. "
Terry Pratchett
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