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1948–2015 England
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works, most famous for his Discworld series.
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The truth isn’t easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...
Sourcery (1988)
The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.
Wyrd Sisters (1989)
“It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now—that’ll keep them going forever.”
Hogfather (1996)
No, I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.
If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.
Men at Arms (1993)
Demons aren't bound by physics. If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them.
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
The Carpet People (1971)
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").
The Unadulterated Cat (1989)
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance...
The Nome Trilogy (1989)
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
Silence slammed in like a thunderclap.
Men at Arms (1993)
If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on.
The Carpet People (1971)
“Interest? What’s money interested in?”
Dodger (2012)
"Can you think of any reason why someone would kill him?"
Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.
Sourcery (1988)
He shook his head. "There's no justice."
a conversation with Death in Mort (1987)
Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?
The Carpet People (1971)
What your soldier wants -- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him.
The space between the young readers eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.
A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.
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