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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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open-mind
thinking
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Terry Pratchett |
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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.
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proverb
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Terry Pratchett |
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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
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Terry Pratchett |
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
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humor
life
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Terry Pratchett |
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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 colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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travel
change
growth
discworld
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Terry Pratchett |
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If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
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humor
life
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Terry Pratchett |
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Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
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science
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Terry Pratchett |
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE."
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death
life
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Terry Pratchett |
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bbfbe1a
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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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science
metaphysics
physics
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Terry Pratchett |
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05062a9
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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
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light
speed-of-light
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Terry Pratchett |
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9a0b8da
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DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who .
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god
humor
gaiman
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Terry Pratchett |
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All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little--" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not ..
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lies
truth
mercy
justice
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Terry Pratchett |
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And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death." --
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love
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Terry Pratchett |
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No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
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humor
interrogation
police
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Terry Pratchett |
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ed3d7b9
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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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computer
ridcully
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Terry Pratchett |
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It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"
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humour
humor
teaching
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Terry Pratchett |
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
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dream
work
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Terry Pratchett |
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
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kinky
suggestive
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Terry Pratchett |
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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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pratchett
terry
sky
hat
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Terry Pratchett |
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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reading
bookstore
read
discworld
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Terry Pratchett |
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The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, an..
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economics
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Terry Pratchett |
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An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
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She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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humour
inspirational
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Terry Pratchett |
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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Terry Pratchett |
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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
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life
movies
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Terry Pratchett |
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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
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simile
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Terry Pratchett |
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b16d303
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If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!
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humour
stupidity
religion
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Terry Pratchett |
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He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
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technology
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Terry Pratchett |
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Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
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Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
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HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)
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humor
cynism
ennui
boredom
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Terry Pratchett |
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
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kindness
humanity
evil
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Terry Pratchett |
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This book was written using 100% recycled words.
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humor
environmentalism
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Terry Pratchett |
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His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.
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Terry Pratchett |
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inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been..
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Terry Pratchett |
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Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."
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fate
questions
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Terry Pratchett |
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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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humor
life
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Terry Pratchett |
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82c32e3
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We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
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humor
gallows-humor
laughing
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Terry Pratchett |
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60093a9
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Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |