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Terry Pratchett

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Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.


— Terry Pratchett


#humor #humor

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.


— Terry Pratchett


#wisdom #humor

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.


— Terry Pratchett


#called #die #eyes #fact #in fact

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.


— Terry Pratchett


#wisdom #witches #humor

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!


— Terry Pratchett


#ridcully #students #love

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.


— Terry Pratchett


#humour #ulterior-motive #motivational

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.


— Terry Pratchett


#death

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.


— Terry Pratchett


#dwarf #perception #perspective #men

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.


— Terry Pratchett


#wonder #men

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.


— Terry Pratchett


#humor






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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