Up until now I'd always though RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people. And even if you weren't virtuous, as you had been brought up to understand the term, you did like to see virtue in other people, provided it didn?t cost you anything.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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It’s finished and I’m proud of it but a bit disappointed in myself for being terrible at counting. I had to improvise the rats because I made a couple of mistakes on the lettering but it’s legible so I’ll consider it a win. I am blocking it now while I figure out how I want to put the finishing touches on. #fiberarts #needlework #deathofrats #gnuterrypratchett #mastoart #pixelart #handmade

Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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- "It could be a torture chamber or a dungeon or a hideous pit or anything!"
- "It's just a student's bedroom, sergeant."
- "You see?"

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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I'm getting a lot of mail and email about FoC (I particularly liked the postcard which read 'We were *sure* it was the wallpaper, you bastard!!!!!'). I'm glad to say that most Baconians hared off after poissons rouge.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

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That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. 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?"

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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It was hard enough to kill a vampire. You could stake them down and turn them into dust and ten years later someone drops a drop of blood in the wrong place and *guess who's back*? They returned more times than raw broccoli.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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Most alchemists were nervous, in any case; it came from not knowing what the crucible of bubbling stuff they were experimenting with was going to do next.

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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"All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is *bastards*."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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"I know she's in there," said Verence, holding his crown in his hands in the famous Ai-Senor-Mexican-Bandits-Have-Raided-Our-Village position.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on

What a beautiful article to honour #SirTerryPratchett on his death anniversary.