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Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in...
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about i...
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from...
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
“What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any pri...
“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, rem...
“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE....
“Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.”
“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.”
“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
“No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god.""Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. ...
“There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library...
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colo...
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensat...
“Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was...
“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last d...
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three det...
“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”
“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great ...
“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”
“The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of...
“Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was ...
“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”
“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotis...
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, wit...
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled."Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity...
“If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet co...
“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
“The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it ...
“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they ...
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be ...
“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together th...
“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were...
“There is always a choice.""You mean I could choose certain death?""A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. Yo...
“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family ...
“Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected ...
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people...
“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But m...
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
“When in doubt, choose to live.”
“Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the und...
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
“...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
“The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder...
“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but ...
“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged”
“It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest t...
