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Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.

Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff became the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.

Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust , filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for Alzheimer's Research UK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. April 1948 – 12. March 2015  •  Other names Sir Terry Pratchett
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Terry Pratchett Quotes

“Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“We're on a mission from Glod.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

“… All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?"

"Yeah," said Rincewind. "… Luters, I expect.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“Thunder rolled.. It rolled a six.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy
that eluded him at the moment.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“Personal isn't the same as important.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

Variant: Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
Source: Men at Arms

“The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“There’s lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam Vimes and I’m a really suspicious bastard.”

Terry Pratchett book Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

“I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.”

Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals

Source: Unseen Academicals

“YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“What is magic?
There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.

(Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate…)”

Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

Terry Pratchett book Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: The Color of Magic

“… the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

“He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch