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Be More Terry
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Be More Terry
This Friday (28 April) would have been Terry Pratchett's 68th birthday. If you at all appreciate this good and great and stupendously talented man, recognize him by taking to heart some of the reams of good advice he gave us:

-Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things

-It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

-The harder I work, the luckier I become.

-Nothing anybody can say or devise is going to be perfect.

-In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods. They haven't forgotten this, and neither should we.

-The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

- It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.

-The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, © run away from, and (d) rocks. Try not to get these muddled up.

- I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

-Goodness is about what you do, not what you pray to.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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fucking things your first impulse is to run away from can be wonderful . . .
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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Hard to believe, but I only discovered Terry Pratchett less than a year ago. Lots of great material to cover; I'm reading the Discworld stories first.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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(April 22, 2017 at 12:29 pm)Fireball Wrote: Hard to believe, but I only discovered Terry Pratchett less than a year ago. Lots of great material to cover; I'm reading the Discworld stories first.

When you're done there, have a go at 'Good Omens', a collaboration he did with Neil Gaiman. Helluva good read about the Apocalypse.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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