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A Way of Stealing Time
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A Way of Stealing Time

Terry Pratchett, author

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Aug 24, 2023
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“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”

― Terry Pratchett, author, “Thud!”

I’m busy enough today that if someone put chopped-up penguin in a cup labeled oatmeal I would have eaten it for breakfast and not noticed. Luckily, today, it was oatmeal.

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