Terry Pratchett Quotes

English - Author | April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Terry Pratchett

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My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

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I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

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I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

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Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

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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.

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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

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

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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

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If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

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