Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett was a British author known for his satirical fantasy series 'Discworld', which explores complex themes through humor and wit.

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April 28, 1948
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"They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of."

Father Eye Long Ago
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"Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges."

Mountain Meat Village
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"Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight."

Night Long Bravery
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"Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed."

Morning Bed Wake Up
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"Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see."

Men Shoes Coffins
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"He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric."

Men Mad Hash
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"They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer."

Intelligent Quality Would Be
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"Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you."

Home Eye Thinking
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"It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory."

Book Holy Made
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"But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance."

Dream Rainbow Forever
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"Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course."

Humble Men Thinking
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"It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying."

Children Nice Play
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"Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for."

Beer Nannies Pay
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"Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana."

Thinking Mountain Want
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"He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there."

Remember Used Said
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"It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it."

Talking Glasses People
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"I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN."

Good Life Believe Doe
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"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."

Singing Brighter
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