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Terry Pratchett — Portrait after a picture by Luigi Novi (CC BY 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Terry Pratchett

English fantasy author

1948–2015

13 quotes, most often on Comedy, Thinking and Science.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
alt.fan.pratchett (22 November 1993)
- Advice
- Comedy
When they’re standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
- Comedy
- Power
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Diggers (1990)
- Comedy
- Thinking

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