Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

English author
28 April 1948 — 12 March 2015

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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

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Questions don't have to make sense [...]. But answers do.

Names are important. A thing with a name is a bit more than a thing.

You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.

If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

A chocolate you did not want to eat does not count as chocolate.

When you know what you are, you can do anything.

There isn`t a way things should be. There`s just what happens, and what we do.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

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