I took this photo of Terry as we walked to St. Martinβs 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.
You canβt 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. β Terry Pratchett, A Blink of the Screen
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots thatβd still be keeping his feet dry in ten yearsβ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on bootsβ¦
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β¦ 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 dollarsβ¦
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β¦ 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.
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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.
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once youβre in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no noticeβ¦
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
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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.
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 Wellerβs birthday.
I *think* youβll know this narrator β reply with your guess. Tomorrow, weβll 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:
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
There was the noise of something he hadnβt realized heβd been hearing suddenly stopping, and the descending whine of a distant generator. The lights on the panels flickered, and most of them went out.
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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.
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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
Thank you for all your kind messages yesterday, but to those of you telling me youβve shelved the Shepherdβs Crown because you canβt bring yourself to read it I have just one thing to say; DONβT! That absolutely isnβt what Terry would have wanted! Read it and enjoy it. Please.
Professor Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE, born this day in 1948. βI was a Taurean but slightly cuspal,β Terry observed of his birth-date, βwhich I believe is why I can never get trousers that fit me.β
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.
What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected.Β Β Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?
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A decade ago this very day
#Nation
was published. Itβs often referred to as Terryβs masterpiece, something he would firmly deny, but it was most definitely his favourite novel and the one he had the most fun writing
#SpeakHisName
Okay... tomorrow... thereβs going to be some GOOD NEWS - really, really great news - but I have been instructed not to tell you ANYTHING. So Iβm not. Nothing. Are we all in agreement here? I have told you nothing & you know nothing, except that tomorrow you will know something.
Weβre delighted to announce that to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Discworld, Royal Mail have commissioned a special series of Discworld stamps from
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Full details can be found here:
βWell, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and Iβm pretty sure that whatever happens we wonβt have found Freedom, and there wonβt be a whole lot of Justice, and Iβm damn sure we wonβt have found Truth. But itβs just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.β
#HappyEaster
Terry whomst, at a book signing, asked my name, and being a young egg, I told him, adding "for now" so he leaned in, asked what it *will* be, and signed my copy of Guards Guards ambiguously enough that it can be read either way.
He was the first human to know of Tal
The Library didnβt 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 thinkβ¦
A Life with Footnotes β announcing the official biography of Terry Pratchett. Published by Doubleday on 29 September 2022, full details at:
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'You are in favour of the common people?β said Dragon mildly.
βThe common people?β said Vimes. βTheyβre nothing special. Theyβre no different from the rich and powerful except theyβve got no money or power.Β Β But the law should be there to balance things up a bit.'
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β¦that they werenβt also dangerous, just because reading them didnβt 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 readerβs brain.
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