I found some good ones of his: "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it."
"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues" "Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to" "So much universe, and so little time." ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : R.I.P. Terry. Here are a few quotes: (THIS ONE IS ACTUALLY QUITE PROFOUND) “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” (THIS ONE IS SO TRUE ALAS!) “If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.” “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” (WELL DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!) “If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” (NO DOUBT - BUT HAVING A WALK-ON PART IN SOMEONE ELSE'S STORY - IF THEY ARE MORE PERCEPTIVE AND SENSITIVE THAN YOU - MAYBE HAS ITS COMPENSATIONS.) ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Fascinating that the vast literature surrounding famous people's "last words" as they die is now being acted out on Twitter. R.I.P. Terry Pratchett. May your walk through the desert be a fine one. Terry Pratchett dies at 66 after long battle with Alzheimer's disease http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991774/Fantasy-author-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66-long-battle-Alzheimer-s-disease.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991774/Fantasy-author-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66-long-battle-Alzheimer-s-disease.html Terry Pratchett dies at 66 after long battle with Alzhei... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991774/Fantasy-author-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66-long-battle-Alzheimer-s-disease.html He sold over 85million books worldwide in 37 languages, and in 2008 announced his diagnosis with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease p... View on www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2991774/Fantasy-author-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66-long-battle-Alzheimer-s-disease.html Preview by Yahoo
