Terry PratchettBorn: April 28, 1948 in Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire, England,
The United Kingdom
Died March 12, 2015
LONDON — Author Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66. By Tim Chester, Mashable.com
The writer's Twitter account first hinted at the news with a tweet in all caps, which is how the author
had come to characterise Death - one of his most memorable characters in his books.
Sadly a second tweet confirmed the news
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AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
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Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
11:07 AM - 12 Mar 2015
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Another linked to a formal statement about his death that announced: "It is with immeasurable sadness that we announce that author Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66."
A fourth simply said "The End.”
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The End.
11:07 AM - 12 Mar 2015
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I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance.
Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.
Terry Pratchett
And my favorite:
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett
He will be missed.