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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

THERE IS NO JUSTICE, JUST US. ~Mort

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

An hour ago I saw Samuel Vimes. It's nice to see Terry Pratchett fans around

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fun fact - my childhood nickname (and online handle) was used (with permission) by the great man himself! (As the name of a hearty military soup :P )

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is fun!

Did you know him personally? What's the story?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish! Nah, I went to the Discworld Convention when I was 8 or so, and met him at one of the book-signing events, where he noticed my namebadge. Though even in the few minutes that I spent chatting with him there, he was very obviously a warm, kind, generous man. GNU Terry Pratchett.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's awesome!

And you get to live on forever as soup in the Discworld.

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