"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."
-Terry Pratchett
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"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.“
-Terry Pratchett
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"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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"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
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