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Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
Keberanian
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
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Terry Pratchett
Pernikahan
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
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Terry Pratchett
Pendidikan
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
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Terry Pratchett
Cinta
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
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Terry Pratchett
Motivasi
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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Terry Pratchett
Pendidikan
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
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Terry Pratchett
Cinta
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
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Terry Pratchett
Kreativitas
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
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Terry Pratchett
Kreativitas
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
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Terry Pratchett
Pendidikan
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
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Terry Pratchett
Kehidupan
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
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Terry Pratchett
Sukses
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
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Terry Pratchett
Pendidikan
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
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Terry Pratchett
Kehidupan
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
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Terry Pratchett
Nasihat
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
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Terry Pratchett
Kehidupan
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
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Terry Pratchett
Perjuangan
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
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Terry Pratchett
Kreativitas
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
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Terry Pratchett
Kehidupan
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
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Terry Pratchett
Kreativitas
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
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