"I've always felt that what I have going……" — Terry Pratchett
"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."
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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