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WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.
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words
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Terry Pratchett |
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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
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Terry Pratchett |
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There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.
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story
world
sunrise
stories
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Terry Pratchett |
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The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.
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Terry Pratchett |
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There is always time for another last minute
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time
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Terry Pratchett |
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What did I tell you about Mister Safety Catch?' said Vimes weakly. When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend,' recited Detritus, saluting.
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Terry Pratchett |
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He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.
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Terry Pratchett |
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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive."
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Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman |
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But we're a university! We to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds . What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?" "Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely."
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library
students
university
school
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Terry Pratchett |
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nature
quailty
freedom
goodness
choice
beauty
inspiration
science
darkness
motivational
hope
intelligence
life
inspirational
marie-lu
intimate
american-dream
dedication
watchmen
meaning-of-life
order
hardship
pure
harmony
evil
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Terry Pratchett |
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Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.
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heaven
good
hell
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Terry Pratchett |
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It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
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Terry Pratchett |
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What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
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Terry Pratchett |
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It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse."
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Terry Pratchett |
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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 still alive.
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music
humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
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religion
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Terry Pratchett |
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Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
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rules
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Terry Pratchett |
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It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn't do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn't care because it didn't know what "fair" meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you." --
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Terry Pratchett |
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There is a lot of folklore about equestrian statues, especially the ones with riders on them. There is said to be a code in the number and placement of the horse's hooves: If one of the horse's hooves is in the air, the rider was wounded in battle; two legs in the air means that the rider was killed in battle; three legs in the air indicates that the rider got lost on the way to the battle; and four legs in the air means that the sculptor w..
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humor
horses
statues
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Terry Pratchett |
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it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
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Terry Pratchett |
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The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
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tropes
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Terry Pratchett |
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Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!"
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Terry Pratchett |
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Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impres..
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nature
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Terry Pratchett |
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The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir . Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometime..
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monarchy
physics
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Terry Pratchett |
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Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
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words-to-live-by
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Terry Pratchett |
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This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.
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Terry Pratchett |
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It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
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Terry Pratchett |
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Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
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Terry Pratchett |
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THAT'S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY'VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Terry Pratchett |
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The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
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religion
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Terry Pratchett |
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People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
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irony
humorous
humor
ironic
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Terry Pratchett |
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Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face."
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humor
sushi
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Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
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humanity
chimpanzees
stories
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Terry Pratchett |
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Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them. "Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll attack it. Right?" This caused a cheer. "Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie."
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Terry Pratchett |
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This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.
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humor
happy-end
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Terry Pratchett |
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It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.
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author-s-note
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Terry Pratchett |
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The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it added the rider 'and that someone is me'.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!
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child
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Terry Pratchett |
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WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD."
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Terry Pratchett |
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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
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school
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Terry Pratchett |
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A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven...Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She'd read that one and thought, Excuse me?
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fairy
disbelief
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Terry Pratchett |