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But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about."
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In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
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love
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Terry Pratchett |
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4103755
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Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?
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Terry Pratchett |
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eaaa469
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On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.
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gods
discworld
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Terry Pratchett |
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2634724
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He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.
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Terry Pratchett |
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2dab0a3
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But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.
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Terry Pratchett |
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122c120
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I HAVE WATCHED YOUR PROGRESS WITH INTEREST, ESMERELDA WEATHERWAX, said the voice in the dark. He was firm, but oh so polite. But now there was a question in his voice. PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? "I don't know about the world, not much; but in my part of the world I could make little miracles for ordinary people," Granny repl..
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Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.
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fear
hope
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Terry Pratchett |
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220bd77
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Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do."
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stupid-questions
logic
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Terry Pratchett |
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82c001e
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I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.
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wrong
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Terry Pratchett |
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63e1b80
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The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it. So they long ago pl..
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humor
dolphins
hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy
pratchett
pyramids
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Terry Pratchett |
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0762b4e
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Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
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Terry Pratchett |
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85153ed
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NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?
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Terry Pratchett |
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Life in this world," he said, "is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say, hum..
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Terry Pratchett |
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Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
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nuace
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Terry Pratchett |
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5154a4e
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Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.
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Terry Pratchett |
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You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day." For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, "You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!" but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, sett..
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good-manners
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Terry Pratchett |
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d2c7377
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First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.
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Terry Pratchett |
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182f675
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Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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3bf3910
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Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned i..
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woman
women
sybil-vimes
wife
discworld
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Terry Pratchett |
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25f0ac5
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Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
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Terry Pratchett |
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51a02b3
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Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
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literature
pratchett
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Terry Pratchett |
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5641a0a
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But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.
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music
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Terry Pratchett |
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030850b
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You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.
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the-individual
morality-without-religion
discworld
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Terry Pratchett |
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acf9865
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I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If..
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Terry Pratchett |
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ae693d3
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The second mouse gets the cheese!
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retort
mouse
proverb
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Terry Pratchett |
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3ac7438
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5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*
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It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up.
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terry-pratchett
vimes
pratchett
feet-of-clay
sam-vimes
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Terry Pratchett |
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6280a54
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Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.
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women
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Terry Pratchett |
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2a154e1
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Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.
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Terry Pratchett |
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438853c
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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
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wizards
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Terry Pratchett |
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3586b35
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In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.
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Terry Pratchett |
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ff46793
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You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.
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slap
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Terry Pratchett |
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615cac7
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And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?
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Terry Pratchett |
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171fe09
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Do you think there's anything to eat in this forest?" "Yes," said the wizard bitterly, "us."
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Terry Pratchett |
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bb881d3
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Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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17cb684
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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it..."
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lies
war
humor
propaganda
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Terry Pratchett |
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428dd57
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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
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Terry Pratchett |
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58c13d6
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Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.
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Terry Pratchett |
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76600ec
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The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.
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love
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Terry Pratchett |
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9251cc0
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
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Terry Pratchett |
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c6159d4
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Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid th..
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terry-pratchett
humor
good-omens
neil-gaiman
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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett |
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b4ff1fa
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Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to choose. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you had to choose, knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you were deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there was no right anywhere. And always, always, yo..
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Terry Pratchett |
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c6d77fd
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I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME."
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