#tin

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards." ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bastards #copper #during #gods #person

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 accept challenges, I have always done that in writing. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#always #challenges #done #i #writing

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#most #writing #you #yourself

'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

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

The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#especially #exciting #kind #limousines #loves

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#centuries #die #god #healthier #help

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amazing things #been #breeding #caustic #ceremony

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#continuous #frustration #live #myself #only