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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.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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.

Terry Pratchett

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.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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.

Terry Pratchett

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

Terry Pratchett

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