#terrypratchettday
Today,
#SirTerryPratchett
would have turned 76. Luckily for us, he lives on in the characters and worlds he created.
'I didn’t have white hair in those days,’ said Granny.
‘Everything was a different colour in those days.’
‘That’s true.’
‘It didn’t rain so…
We can neither confirm nor deny reports regarding the contents of this book. Available from all good Ankh-Morpork book sellers. Also available from most of the bad ones.
“It says the continent has very few poisonous snakes…Oh, there’s a footnote.” His finger went down the page. “It says, ‘Most of them have been killed by the spiders.’ How very odd.”
#AustraliaDay
#TerryPratchett
is trending. Rightfully so.
“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
“He’ll miss his mummy if he’s left behind, won’t he,” crooned Nanny Ogg, picking up Greebo. He hung limply, like a bag of water gripped around the middle.
To Nanny Ogg Greebo was still the cute little kitten that chased balls of wool around the floor.
#HugYourCatDay
#worldalzhheimersday
“...talk openly about
#dementia
because it’s a fact, well enshrined in folklore, that if we are to kill the demon then first we have to say its name. Once we have recognised the demon, without secrecy or shame, we can find its weaknesses.” —
#TerryPratchett
'The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they’d be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armor.' - Guards! Guards!
#StGeorgesDay
'...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.'
#GloriousTwentyFifth
To celebrate what would have been the year of Terry's 70th Birthday, we've released two fantastic T-shirts, including one of the most-requested designs of *ALL TIME*!
"There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having."
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Nanny Ogg looked under her bed 🛌 in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
— Lords & Ladies, Terry Pratchett
#TerryPratchett
#Discworld
Today is
#SaveTheElephantDay
– these gentle and intelligent creatures have a special place in - or under - the Discworld, bearing it upon their massive shoulders.
"Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I’m not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake 🐍."
— Terry Pratchett, Speech to Alzheimer's Research Trust Conference
It would have been Terry's 75th birthday today.
#HappyBirthday
Sir Terry!
“It reached the boat. Long clammy fingers grabbed the side, and a lugubrious face rose level with Nanny Ogg’s. ‘’ullo,’ it said. ‘It’sss my birthday.” — WA
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#Discworld
#DiscworldOfficial
#BookLoversDay
"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...a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous." —
#TerryPratchett
Happy Birthday Terry x
“It reached the boat. Long clammy fingers grabbed the side, and a lugubrious face rose level with Nanny Ogg’s. ‘’ullo,’ it said. ‘It’sss my birthday.” — Witches Abroad
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#happybirthday
🎂
#Discworld
Just in case you need a little prompt...
#NationalHugYourCatDay
'To Nanny Ogg he was merely a larger version of the little fluffy kitten he had once been. To everyone else he was a scarred ball of inventive malignancy.'
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#Discworld
'...Vimes found it better to look at Authority for orders and then filter those orders through a fine mesh of common sense, adding a generous scoop of creative misunderstanding and maybe even incipient deafness...
#TerryPratchett
, Night Watch
#Discworld
"You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake." — Terry Pratchett
Happy 🎂 Birthday TP x
#TerryPratchett
#Discworld
"...and the funny thing was that people who weren’t entirely certain they were right ALWAYS ARGUED MUCH LOUDER than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves."
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#Discworld
H A P P Y A N N I V E R S A R I E S !
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett's first book of the Discworld series, was released on this day 1983. In his own words, Terry stated that he wrote it as a form of protest and as a satirical take on earlier fantasy novels. He believed…
"Alzheimer's is me, unwinding, losing trust in myself, a butt of my own jokes and on bad days capable of playing hunt the slipper by myself and losing. You can't battle it, you can't be a plucky 'survivor.' It steals you from yourself." —
#terrypratchett
Good Omens is 31 today! 🎂
“Aziraphale collected books...In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means...to prevent customers from making a purchase.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
‘What’s an elephant?’
‘A kind of badger,’ said Granny. She hadn’t maintained forest-credibility for forty years by ever admitting ignorance.
– Equal Rites
Check out our great selection of Witch-themed products!
‘We haven't even practised together properly,' said Imp.
'We'll practice as we go along,' said Glod. 'Welcome to the world of professional musicianship.' - Soul Music
#WorldAlzhheimersDay
'One of the biggest challenges we face, with nearly 50 million people living with dementia worldwide. To tackle this global dementia challenge we need to work together.'
Remembering Terry today and always.
#TerryPratchett
Looking back...
In 2007
#SirTerryPratchett
announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of early-onset
#alzheimersdisease
.
‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re…
'The librarian was, ex officio, a member of the college council. No one had been able to find any rule about orang-utans being barred, although they had surreptitiously looked very hard for one.' – Eric
We're very excited to announce that 2018 will be The Year of the Justifiably Defensive Lobster! What's more, you can buy your very own lobster to see the new year in with you!
#clawsome
#DayoftheGirl
“She couldn’t be the prince,
and she’d never be a princess,
and she didn’t want to be a woodcutter,
so she’d be a witch and know things.” — Terry Pratchett
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#Discworld
📣 RELEASED TODAY!!!
Royal Mail 💌 celebrating
#Discworld
with 8 beautiful stamps. They also mark the 40th anniversary of The Colour of Magic.🤩
👉 Read more
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Hot off the Press! 📰
BILL NIGHY STARS AS VOICE OF PRATCHETT IN
BRAND-NEW RECORDINGS OF THE ENTIRE DISCWORLD SERIES
Plus an all-star cast of leading British acting talent
Listen and more 👇
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#Discworld
📰 13 Years Ago
#SirTerryPratchett
was Knighted.
His typically sartorial response was: “I suspect the ’services to literature’ consisted of refraining from trying to write any.” However, he did admit he felt “mightily chuffed about it”. — Daily Express
🐝 Not to be feared, more respected. Happy
#WorldBeeDay
🐝
"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 ... take no notice ..." —
#GoodOmens
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