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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

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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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" Freedom without limits is just a word. "

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" Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "

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" You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. "

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" Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW. "

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" I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me. "

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" Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. "

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

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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 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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" 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. "

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" It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing. "

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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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" Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. "

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" I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while. "

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

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" The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. "

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

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" I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed. "

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" 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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" It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. "

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" It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. "

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