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" This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "
Terry Pratchett
Fast Lane
Fast
Lane
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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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" 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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" It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. "
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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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" I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. "
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" I think it does Discworld good if I don't write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system. "
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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 occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. "
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Two
Alzheimer
Knowing
" 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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" 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. "
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Want
Know
You
" The harder I work, the luckier I become. "
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Become
Harder
Luckier
" Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon. "
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Sometimes
Work
" 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
Trouble
Trying
People
" Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. "
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Sooner Or Later
Someone
Dog
" I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. "
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" I like being a writer. "
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Like
Being
" The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. "
Terry Pratchett
Number
Intelligence
People
" 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. "
Terry Pratchett
Imagination
Me
Wild
" The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. "
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Truth
Lies
Inside
" 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
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" There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books. "
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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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Mind
" Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to 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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Library
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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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Stage
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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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You
People
" Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. "
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You
Writing
" 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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" 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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" 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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