Terry Pratchett 🖤 🤍
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Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins; Books Written Cheap
Salisbury, UK
Joined March 2009
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example…. 1/5.
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Equal Rites. #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
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Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
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Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
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… in the same time AND WOULD STILL HAVE WET FEET. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness. #VimesBootsIndex @BootstrapCook.#50YearsOfTerry. 5/5.
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I took this photo of Terry as we walked to St. Martin’s 12thc church in Fifield Bavant. The image has subsequent been used everywhere & I am the only person alive who knows what Terry was muttering at me under his breath as I snapped away. Happy Birthday old friend and THANK YOU.
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Sir Terry Pratchett OBE.28 April 1948 - 12 March 2015
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You can’t start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it. – Terry Pratchett, A Blink of the Screen.
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Terry would be beyond proud today. Thank you David & Michael.
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But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots….4/5.
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… He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of okay for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars….2/5.
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“Of all the dead authors in the world, Terry Pratchett is the most alive”
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… Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. 3/5.
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Such fantastic news! We’re re-recording all of the Discworld novels with an incredible cast #50YearsOfTerry
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
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The year of the Condescending Carp is with us. Here’s to a happy, peaceful and creative one.
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Happy Hogswatch one and all. And - like Nanny Ogg - we hope yours is a large one.
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Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice….
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On a million hillsides the girl ran, on a million bridges the girl chose, on a million paths the woman stood. All different, all one. All she could do for all of them was be herself, here and now, as hard as she could #InternationalWomensDay
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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.
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Every year I am asked why today. Well, I shall tell you a secret; the date came first and the lilac second. Terry asked me to find the one day in the year that would cause least offence and after much pondering & historical research I settled on May 25th; Paul Weller’s birthday.
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I *think* you’ll know this narrator – reply with your guess. Tomorrow, we’ll announce all the narrators of A Stroke of the Pen. Who else do you think might be involved? You can pre-order the audiobook here:
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More than ever before, I cannot thank you enough for all the words and for letting me join you on the most incredible journey. I miss you every day #GNUTerryPratchett
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There was the noise of something he hadn’t realized he’d been hearing suddenly stopping, and the descending whine of a distant generator. The lights on the panels flickered, and most of them went out. 1/5.
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and started writing letters to the newspapers about how people got overexcited about the least little thing these days. Once again, peace and love to all our friends across the world. Here's to new beginnings. #Elections2020 #GoodOmens.5/5.
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A very Happy New Year one and all. It’s time to bring on the badger.
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So proud that Sir Terry Pratchett's NIGHT WATCH is to become a Penguin Classic. It will publish in April 2025 to coincide with Terry Pratchett Day.
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Vimes carefully lifted the top of the bacon, lettuce & tomato sandwich & smiled inwardly. Good old Cheery. She knew what a Vimes BLT was all about. It was about having to lift up quite a lot of crispy bacon before you found the miserable skulking vegetables.#InternationalBaconDay.
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Thank you for all your kind messages yesterday, but to those of you telling me you’ve shelved the Shepherd’s Crown because you can’t bring yourself to read it I have just one thing to say; DON’T! That absolutely isn’t what Terry would have wanted! Read it and enjoy it. Please.
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We hereby declare that the Discworld year for 2019 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] :. The Year of the Incontrovertible Skunk.
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Professor Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE, born this day in 1948. ‘I was a Taurean but slightly cuspal,’ Terry observed of his birth-date, ‘which I believe is why I can never get trousers that fit me.’.
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What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that? #TerryPratchett.
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With its raw, unflinching honesty, Scare is a landmark publication full of intimidation, manipulation, assassination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of fear.
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My job as Executive Producer on #GoodOmens is primarily to remind the world the book had TWO FECKING AUTHORS @Variety.
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A decade ago this very day #Nation was published. It’s often referred to as Terry’s masterpiece, something he would firmly deny, but it was most definitely his favourite novel and the one he had the most fun writing #SpeakHisName
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Okay. tomorrow. there’s going to be some GOOD NEWS - really, really great news - but I have been instructed not to tell you ANYTHING. So I’m not. Nothing. Are we all in agreement here? I have told you nothing & you know nothing, except that tomorrow you will know something.
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These are what they call here’ – he smiled – ‘interesting times.’ .‘I *hate* interesting times.’.
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The Discworld year for 2020 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Condescending Carp!
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We’re delighted to announce that to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Discworld, Royal Mail have commissioned a special series of Discworld stamps from @PaulKidby .Full details can be found here:
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The Discworld year for 2021 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Beleaguered Badger!
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Seven years ago. and tonight we celebrate #GoodOmens. Wish you were here to see it, Terry #SpeakHisName
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“Well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”.#HappyEaster.
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The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think….
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One lousy steamroller, ten unpublished novels and look at all the trouble I'm in. !
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[Except - sometimes - the people really do get it right. Peace and love to all our friends across the Atlantic and here’s to new beginnings].
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A Life with Footnotes – announcing the official biography of Terry Pratchett. Published by Doubleday on 29 September 2022, full details at: #50YearsOfTerry.
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The Discworld year for 2022 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Lachrymating Leveret.
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'You are in favour of the common people?’ said Dragon mildly. ‘The common people?’ said Vimes. ‘They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit.'.#TerryPratchett.
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…that they weren’t also dangerous, just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain. #WorldBookDay #50YearsOfTerry.
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Ridcully : As a wizard, I must tell you that words have power. Vetinari : As a politician, I must tell you I already know.
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