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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
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immortality
remembrance
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Terry Pratchett |
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1f43305
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are ni..
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Terry Pratchett |
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875c969
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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
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Terry Pratchett |
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60108db
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Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
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insanity
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Terry Pratchett |
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0837276
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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
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war
religion
insanity
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Terry Pratchett |
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a2f3923
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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
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time
libraries
space
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Terry Pratchett |
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a3479f0
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Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
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Terry Pratchett |
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2f8b012
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Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
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Terry Pratchett |
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d81398f
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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magic
science
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Terry Pratchett |
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2b9246b
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25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?' 26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.' 27 And the Lord did not ask him again.
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heaven
god
humor
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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
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dc00f52
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If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
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Terry Pratchett |
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c1aedc9
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Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
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Terry Pratchett |
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2a149dc
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The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one."
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gender-stereotypes
men-and-women
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Terry Pratchett |
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b2896e6
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The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
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people
intelligence
mob-rule
mobs
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Terry Pratchett |
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269329c
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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
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Terry Pratchett |
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5f8da10
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Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person."
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sanity
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Terry Pratchett |
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b74e0b1
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There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
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Terry Pratchett |
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54b5b57
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You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' 'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.
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death
humor
hells-angels
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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
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a66e711
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Witches are naturally nosy," said Miss Tick, standing up. "Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet again. I will give you some free advice, though." "Will it cost me anything?" "What? I just said it was free!" said Miss Tick. "Yes, but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive," said Tiffany. Miss Tick sniffed. "You could say this advice is priceless," she said, "Are you listening?" "Yes," said Tiffany. "Good. Now...if y..
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witches
work
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Terry Pratchett |
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25461e3
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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.
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wisdom
schrodinger-s-cat
quantum-physics
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Terry Pratchett |
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e782e66
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The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
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Terry Pratchett |
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63ebd52
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Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice d..
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fate
death
circumstance
killed
confusion
miraculous
miracles
saved
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Terry Pratchett |
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1a38b83
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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
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humourous
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Terry Pratchett |
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3b155fb
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Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
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Terry Pratchett |
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bc610ff
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What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
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morality
honesty
religion
decency
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Terry Pratchett |
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7fc92fa
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All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
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Terry Pratchett |
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ec36dc7
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Insanity is catching.
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Terry Pratchett |
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147ba9c
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There's a door." "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think."
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Terry Pratchett |
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e5d5309
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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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20a9ede
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Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
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Terry Pratchett |
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2af2a56
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.
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religion
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Terry Pratchett |
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5f36ccc
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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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good-and-evil
temptation
wickedness
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Terry Pratchett |
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e69a511
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In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
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literary-criticism
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Terry Pratchett |
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603bc92
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He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
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sex
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Terry Pratchett |
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8c4410f
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Progress just means bad things happen faster.
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philosphy
humor
life
truth
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Terry Pratchett |
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21c8e7e
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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Terry Pratchett |
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27aa095
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Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short."
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Terry Pratchett |
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When in doubt, choose to live.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It's all the people ..
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Terry Pratchett |
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69faa00
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Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
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Terry Pratchett |
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9691d41
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The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has its own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dre..
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humour
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Terry Pratchett |
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e84c49b
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.
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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
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60606c0
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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
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Terry Pratchett |