30 Terry Pratchett Quotes to Guide You Through Life

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Because he was wise and witty, and leaves us wonderful words -

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2015/03/30-terry-pratchett-quotes-to-guide-you-through-life/

A few to get you going:

Because there is nothing better, when faced with a dark spot caused by the sudden absence of a brilliant mind—like that of Sir Terry Pratchett—than basking in the warm glow left by its most shiny of illuminations.

And besides, we should have already done it by now. This stuff is GOLD:

• The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

• In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

• Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

• Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

• They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
 
Here are a few more for casual readers - I posted the link, but more important Pratchett wouldn't mind.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

• The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

• Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

• Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

• Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
 
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