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- Terry Pratchett: English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works
- Terry Eagleton: British literary theorist and critic
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
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A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
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Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going.
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Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them.
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Blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down
You can blame it all on me, Terry
It don't matter to me now.Born To Run (1975) Backstreets -
Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.
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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
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I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
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I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
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I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
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It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
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It's useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur ''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,'' then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
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Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the Backstreets.Born To Run (1975) Backstreets -
Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
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