English - Author | April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
Terry Pratchett
WorkBecomeLuckierHarder
I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.
YouBodyGoRunDeadFirst
I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
LifeBestStand UpThinkStandSay
I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.
HopeMoneyFriendsLivingWill
I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.
MindMeGameThinkEndRage
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.
CharacterVoicePageMatterStage
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
GodThinkEnoughFindingEvidence
The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.
WorkGoodFatherCommunityThought
'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.
GoodMyselfSoulMeMy SoulNation
Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
ParentsChurchChristianYouDivine
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
AgeArtPastBabyLearnDie
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