It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to *me*"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

Terry Pratchett, The Unadulterated Cat

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Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

Terry Pratchett, Mort

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"ER...HO. HO. HO."

Death makes a career move
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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My take on Death of Rats

"He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them mean," people said, but not when he was within hearing.

Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People

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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Not surprising that Vetinari made sure there are no tariffs for #Discworld

"You mean mysterious ancient races of Amazonian princesses who subject all male prisoners to strange and exhausting progenitative rites?" said Eric, his glasses beginning to fog.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

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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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12 top best-selling adult fantasy books of all time

These authors have more gold than the Lannisters.
https://www.themarysue.com/top-best-selling-adult-fantasy-books-of-all-time/

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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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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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Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu-- was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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Sœurcières 2016

My little tribute to Gnu Terry Pratchett

He was truly my favorite author

Sir Terry Pratchett was one of two people who I quoted directly in my dissertation. This line from Feet of Clay was the motto for my introductory chapter:

"This is where we’ve filled ourselves up with so many questions that they’re starting to overflow and become answers."

It resonated with me, because this is what doing research often feels like for me.

May the Great A'Tuin always carry you on your travels through the cosmos.

Remembering the fabulous Terry Pratchett, ten years on since he sublimed to a higher level of conciousness.

Hard to believe it's already been ten years. GNU Terry Pratchett.

( Illustration by Paul Kidby)