English - Author | April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett
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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
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If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
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'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
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There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
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Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
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