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Terry Pratchett

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Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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Quotes from Terry Pratchett

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

—Terry Pratchett

open-mindedness learning knowledge

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

—Terry Pratchett

instructions

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

—Terry Pratchett

thought thinking

It's a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong.… It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying, "Wow," a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels.

—Terry Pratchett

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

—Terry Pratchett

snoring marriage disagreement

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

—Terry Pratchett

history people evil good flawed

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

—Terry Pratchett

wisdom perception distance

Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.

—Terry Pratchett

understanding knowledge magic

The thing about football—the important thing about football—is that it is not just about football.

—Terry Pratchett