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Terry Pratchett
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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.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Life
#Day
#Man
#Rest
#Fire
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Nothing
#Beginning
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Gods
#Cats
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
Terry Pratchett,
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#Gods
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Genius
#Blood
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Mind
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Worth
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Terry Pratchett,
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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.
Terry Pratchett,
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#First
#Darkness
#Light
#Wrong
#Waiting
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Wrong
#Fantasy
#Mind
#Exercise
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett,
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#People
#Will
#Trouble
#Open
#Trying
#Mind
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Terry Pratchett,
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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Fun
#Writing
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Life
#Living
#Eyes
#Fact
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett,
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#May
#Truth
#Lies
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Pen
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett,
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#People
#Intelligence
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Money
#Taxation
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
Terry Pratchett,
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Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Darkness
#Light
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Time
#Dreams
#Rest
#Wages
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Fate
#Gods
#Chess
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett,
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#Ignorance
#Knowledge