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Terry Pratchett Facts
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Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010. (1948 – 2015) |
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Quotes by Terry Pratchett
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Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.
Terry Pratchett
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First, never, ever apologize for anything that doesn’t need apologizing for,’ said Glenda. ‘And especially never apologize for just being yourself.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett
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It is a well-known fact in any organization that, if you want a job done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy.
Terry Pratchett
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
Terry Pratchett
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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
Terry Pratchett
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
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More important right now was what kind of truth he was going to have to impart to his colleagues, and he decided not on the whole truth, but instead on nothing but the truth, which dispensed with the need for honesty.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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One of those glittery dreams sold by Bu-bubble and other junk, where all you had to do to be famous was just ‘be yourself’.
Terry Pratchett
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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?
Terry Pratchett
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The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett
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They think that because I can do what I like I can do what I like.
Terry Pratchett
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What went wrong? I’ll tell you what went wrong! When you got there, there was no there there.
Terry Pratchett
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