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They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as the darkness.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock
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Terry Pratchett |
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There is a plain under a dim sky. It is covered with gentle rolling curves that might remind you of something else if you saw it from a long way away, and if you did see it from a long way away you'd be very glad that you were, in fact, a long way away. Three gray figures floated just above it. Exactly what they were can't be described in normal language. Some people might call them cherubs, although there was nothing rosy-cheeked about the..
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley." --
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'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.
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ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.
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humor
pride
food
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9a62b5c
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That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.
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Terry Pratchett |
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A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.
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Terry Pratchett |
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HO. HO. HO.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Some people have inspired whole countries to great deeds because of the power of their vision. And so could he. Not because he dreams about marching hordes, or world domination, or an empire of a thousand years. Just because he thinks that everyone's really decent underneath and would get along just fine if only they made the effort, and he believes that so strongly it burns like a flame which is bigger than he is. He's got a dream and we'r..
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Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere.
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loss
granny-weatherwax
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Terry Pratchett |
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8f6d524
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That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.
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Terry Pratchett |
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664b68a
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And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"
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Terry Pratchett |
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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.
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people
inspirational
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Terry Pratchett |
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1f86269
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Fate can be one mean god at times.
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Terry Pratchett |
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1690c18
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Granny Weatherwax was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.
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witch
insults
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Terry Pratchett |
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a25de16
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Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage
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Terry Pratchett |
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There was something about the eyes. It wasn't the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was... ... a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the bottom end of the microscope. It said: It said: It said: It said: It said:
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Terry Pratchett |
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bc03e94
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It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.
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Terry Pratchett |
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No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence.
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Terry Pratchett |
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His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.
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Terry Pratchett |
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At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn't worked. It's a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sy..
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Terry Pratchett |
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There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been one worse or more powerful. Until now. Because I could spit in her eye and steal her teeth, see. Because she didn't know Right from Wrong, so she got all twisted up, and that was the end of her. "The trouble is, you see, that if you do know Right from Wrong, you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do it and live. So.. if I was a bad witch I cou..
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morality
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Terry Pratchett |
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You can't say 'if this didn't happen then that would have happened' because you don't know everything that might have happened. You might think something'd be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can't say 'If only I'd...' because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you'll never know. You've gone past. So there's no use thinking about it.
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Terry Pratchett |
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I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
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Terry Pratchett |
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The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.
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Terry Pratchett |
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bee5b15
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So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.
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Terry Pratchett |
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These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.
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Terry Pratchett |
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We can't just drop everything, sir!" "Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?"
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tyrant
vetinari
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Terry Pratchett |
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I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.
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humor
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Terry Pratchett |
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This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool."
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Terry Pratchett |
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Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...
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Terry Pratchett |
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Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell.
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drinks
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Terry Pratchett |
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817ab65
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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Wolves hate werewolves.' 'What? That can't be right! When she's wolf-shaped she's just like a wolf!' 'So? When she's human-shaped she's just like a human. And what's that got to do with anything? Humans don't like werewolves. Wolves don't like werewolves. People don't like wolves that can think like people, an' people don't like people who can act like wolves. Which just goes to show that people are the same everywhere.' said Gaspode. He as..
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terry-pratchett
gaspode
pratchett
wolves
werewolves
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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
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metaphor
humor
recollection
memory
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Terry Pratchett |
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65b0335
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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.
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Terry Pratchett |
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There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.
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humor
milton-keynes
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You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government."
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Terry Pratchett |
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ef0e49b
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This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
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fantasy-books
jared-wheat
fantasy-fiction
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Terry Pratchett |
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c278c06
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Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can reco..
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plays
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Terry Pratchett |
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ff787df
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What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
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