#om

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#much #rather #someone #something #unless

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#disagree #everything #many #physicists #somewhere

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

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

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. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bang #because #down #feel #get

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#interesting #know #ridiculous #see #serious

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #been #blood #cleaned #genius

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#choose #die #fatal #help #i

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? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amiable #boat #century #english #every

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. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#does #get #good #i #i think