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Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

Terry Pratchett
Art, Pain, Taken
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.328, Random House

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Terry Pratchett
Art, Book, Character

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Terry Pratchett
Art, Mirrors, Way
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.312, Random House

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Terry Pratchett
Art, Actors, World
"Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Terry Pratchett
Baby, Art, Successful

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