Terence David John Pratchett
Drinking beer at Trinity College Dublin, photo by Patrick Theiner (13 December 2008)
Born: 28 April 1948, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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- A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true. permalink
Terry Pratchett - A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. permalink
Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! (Discworld #8, 1989) - Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it? permalink
Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People (1971; 1992) - Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room. permalink
Terry Pratchett - The Unadulterated Cat (1989) - Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right. permalink
Terry Pratchett - The Unadulterated Cat (1989) - Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. permalink
Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld #32, 2003) - Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. permalink
Terry Pratchett - alt.fan.pratchett (8 August 1997) - Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possibly go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent. permalink
Terry Pratchett - alt.fan.pratchett - Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. permalink
Terry Pratchett - The Unadulterated Cat (1989) - Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. permalink
Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind (1992) - Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. permalink
Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man (Discworld #11, 1991) - Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. permalink
Terry Pratchett - Jingo (Discworld #21, 1997) - God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. permalink
Terry Pratchett - Good Omens (1990) - I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. permalink
Terry Pratchett - alt.fan.pratchett - I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. permalink
Terry Pratchett - alt.fan.pratchett (8 June 1997)
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