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In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.Terry Pratchett
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It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.Terry Pratchett
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The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.Terry Pratchett
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Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.Terry Pratchett
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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.Terry Pratchett
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She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for propriety and thought she knew how this sort of thing should go and was vaguely annoyed that it wasn't going.Terry Pratchett
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We're on a mission from Glod.Terry Pratchett
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The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.Terry Pratchett
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There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.Terry Pratchett
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Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?Terry Pratchett
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A voice said: One. One. One, two. One, two. Then the footsteps went back into the distance. After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did.Terry Pratchett
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Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.Terry Pratchett
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Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.Terry Pratchett
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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.Terry Pratchett
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The fastest way to travel is to be there already.Terry Pratchett
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TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.Terry Pratchett
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I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.Terry Pratchett
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There are the people of the day, and the creatures of the night. And it's important to remember that the creatures of the night aren't simply the people of the day staying up late because they think that makes them cool and interesting. It takes more than heavy mascara and a pale complexion to cross the divide.Terry Pratchett
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In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.Terry Pratchett
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It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them.Terry Pratchett
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It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.Terry Pratchett
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It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.Terry Pratchett