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" Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. "

Terry Pratchett

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

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" I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. "

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" 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. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? "

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" Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. "

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" 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. "

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" Freedom without limits is just a word. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

" I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's. "

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" Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. "

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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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" You can't die with an unfinished book. "

Terry Pratchett

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

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

Terry Pratchett

" I was a very keen reader of science fiction. "

Terry Pratchett

Science Fiction

" Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. "

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" The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. "

Terry Pratchett

" Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.' "

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" The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. "

Terry Pratchett

" I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. "

Terry Pratchett

" The harder I work, the luckier I become. "

Terry Pratchett

" 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. "

Terry Pratchett

" Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. "

Terry Pratchett

" Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. "

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" 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 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.' "

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

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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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