I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.
Terry PratchettAssassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.
Terry PratchettThe Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.
Terry PratchettMaking money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.
Terry PratchettThe Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.
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