A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were a little boy.' It went straight to my heart, and I kissed him whenever I saw him after that, and my sons and I always kiss whenever we meet.


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TERRY PRATCHETT
Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS
I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY
It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK
Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
TERRY EAGLETON
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh...
TERRY ANDERSON
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology....
TERRY EAGLETON
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
TERRY EAGLETON
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
TERRY BRADSHAW
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ...
TERRY ORLICK
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a...
TERRY EAGLETON
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW
A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN
’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
TERRY PRATCHETT
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
TERRY PRATCHETT
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
TERRY PRATCHETT
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
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 lif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT