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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”
― Terry Pratchett

“A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.”
― Anne McCaffrey

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“an enchanted tent that swore angrily to itself when self-pitching, thus saving you the effort.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Chronicles of Kazam Collection, Books 1–3