Terry Pratchett Quote
Oh, good grief, said Vimes. Look, it's quite simple, man. I was expected to go At last, alcohol!, and chugalug the lot without thinking. Then some respectable pillars of the community - he removed the cigar from his mouth and spat - were going to find me, in your presence, too - which was a nice touch - with the evidence of my crime neatly hidden but not so well hidden that they couldn't find it. He shook his head sadly. The trouble is, you know, that once the taste's got you it never lets go.But you've been very good, sir, said Carrot. I've not seen you touch a drop for -Oh, , said Vimes. I was talking about policing, not alcohol. There's lots of people will help you with the alcohol business, but there's no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, My name is Sam and I'm a really suspicious bastard.
Oh, good grief, said Vimes. Look, it's quite simple, man. I was expected to go At last, alcohol!, and chugalug the lot without thinking. Then some respectable pillars of the community - he removed the cigar from his mouth and spat - were going to find me, in your presence, too - which was a nice touch - with the evidence of my crime neatly hidden but not so well hidden that they couldn't find it. He shook his head sadly. The trouble is, you know, that once the taste's got you it never lets go.But you've been very good, sir, said Carrot. I've not seen you touch a drop for -Oh, , said Vimes. I was talking about policing, not alcohol. There's lots of people will help you with the alcohol business, but there's no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, My name is Sam and I'm a really suspicious bastard.
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About Terry Pratchett
Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 43 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001, he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010.
In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust (now Alzheimer's Research UK, ARUK), filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for ARUK. Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, at the age of 66.