Tag: Terry Pratchett
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Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Terry Pratchett
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I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.
Terry Pratchett
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Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
Terry Pratchett
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Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry Pratchett
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It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
Terry Pratchett
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Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is intensely… landscaped. But ‘Discworld’ is about dialogue, which is one reason why it might be hard to film.
Terry Pratchett
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I think I work much harder on the children’s books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I’ve never been quite certain why this is.
Terry Pratchett
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There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
Terry Pratchett
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We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett