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Terry Pratchett

Read through the most famous quotes from Terry Pratchett




When in doubt, choose to live.


— Terry Pratchett


#doubt

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.


— Terry Pratchett


#marriage

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.


— Terry Pratchett


#humor

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.


— Terry Pratchett


#paraphrased #humor

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.


— Terry Pratchett


#euphemism #humour #political-correctness #humour

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.


— Terry Pratchett


#humor

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...


— Terry Pratchett


#fear #habit #humor #life #death

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.


— Terry Pratchett


#men

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.


— Terry Pratchett


#moist-von-lipwig #humor

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.


— Terry Pratchett


#good-and-evil #temptation #wickedness #opportunity






About Terry Pratchett

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Did you know about Terry Pratchett?

His family moved to Bridgwater Somerset briefly in 1957 following which he passed his eleven plus exam in 1959 earning him a place in John Hampden Grammar School. He was made an adjunct Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin in 2010 with a role in postgraduate education in creative writing and popular literature. Pratchett's first novel The Carpet People was publiTerry Pratchettd in 1971 and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was publiTerry Pratchettd in 1983 he has written two books a year on average.

His latest Discworld book Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the United Kingdom selling 55000 copies in the first three days. Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett OBE (born 28 April 1948) is an English author of fantasy novels especially comical works. In December 2007 Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

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