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Terry Pratchett was born in Beaconsfield, England, in 1948.
* He began his writing career as a journalist, but soon turned to fiction.
* His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971.
* He is best known for his Discworld series of fantasy novels, which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide.
* Pratchett was a humanist and a satirist, and his work often explored social and political issues.
* He was knighted in 2009 for services to literature.
* He died in 2015 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
* His work continues to be popular and influential, and he is considered one of the most important fantasy writers of all time.

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

Terry Pratchett

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

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This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

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This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

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

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...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Terry Pratchett

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

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Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

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What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

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People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

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Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

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This book was written using 100% recycled words.

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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

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He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

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"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?

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Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.

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I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

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Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

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Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.

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