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Terry Pratchett | intelligence

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 | imagination

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 | home

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 | family

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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Dreams Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett | dreams

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

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Death Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett | death

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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Death Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett | death

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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