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a2b1629
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Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too. You just had to decide who your friends really were.
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pratchett
good-omens
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1859cae
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YOU TRIED TO WARN HIM, he said, removing Binky's nose-bag. "Yes, sir. Sorry." YOU CANNOT INTERFERE WITH FATE. WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE WHO SHOULD LIVE AND WHO SHOULD DIE? Death watched Mort's expression carefully. ONLY THE GODS ARE ALLOWED TO DO THAT, he added. TO TINKER WITH THE FATE OF EVEN ONE INDIVIDUAL COULD DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? Mort nodded miserably. "Are you going to send me home?" he said. Death reached down and s..
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Why are our people going out there," said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves' Guild. "Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and ... additional wealth in a new land," said Lord Vetinari. "What's in it for the Klatchians?" said Lord Downey. "Oh, they've gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern," said Lord Vetinari. "A mastery summation, if I may say..
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science-fiction-fantasy
pratchett
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dddbdfc
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She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.
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humor
granny-weatherwax
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8751415
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Nevertheless, it bothered Vimes, even though he'd got really good at the noises and would go up against any man in his rendition of the HRUUUGH! But is this a book for a city kid? When would ever hear these noises? In the city, the only sound those animals would make was "sizzle." But the nursery was full of the conspiracy with bah-lambs and teddy bears and fluffy ducklings everywhere he looked. One evening, after a trying day, he'd tried..
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And he won her freedom by playing beautiful music,' Roland added. 'I think he played a lute. Or maybe it was a lyre.' 'Ach, weel, that'll suit us fine,' said Daft Wullie. 'We're experts at lootin' an' then lyin' aboot it.
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puns
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c52ce1a
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And it all meant this: that there are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. Vorbis loved knowing that. A man who knew that, knew everything he needed to know about people.
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fa3cf71
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Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings.
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b54a52e
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Granny's implicit belief that everything should get out of her way extended to other witches, very tall trees and, on occasion, mountains.
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d19baff
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Woss the matter with you?" asked Big Ted, irritably. "Go on. Press 'D.' Elvis Presley died in 1976." I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM."
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humour
elvis
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Terry Pratchett |
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1b093d9
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He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving - anything with meat on it would have done.
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Terry Pratchett |
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2cda6ab
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What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together
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inspiration
life
what-is-normal
what-happened
important
normal
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Terry Pratchett |
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0343578
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All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
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humor
dwarves
gender
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Terry Pratchett |
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6a9569b
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The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.
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Terry Pratchett |
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a11d7d9
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He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...
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religion
humor
crusades
missionaries
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9c4df80
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Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--' 'I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict. Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. 'Ankh-Morpork is a city', he recovered.
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religion
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Terry Pratchett |
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53ee49d
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History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just ... well, things happening one after another.
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Terry Pratchett |
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289f1e5
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People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those who had gone on did not need them
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Terry Pratchett |
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8714913
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First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin' out how you passed it.
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Terry Pratchett |
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fd764fa
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Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?
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Terry Pratchett |
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270b407
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We ain't going to curse anyone," said Granny firmly. "It hardly ever works if they don't know you've done it." --
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witches
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Terry Pratchett |
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efc7c61
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If you let your mind dwell on rooms like this, you could end up being oddly sad and full of a strange diffuse compassion which would lead you to believe that it might be a good idea to wipe out the whole human race and start again with amoebas.
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84bd87a
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According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men in a swamp early one misty morning and, although one side claimed victory, ended with a practical score of Humans 0, ravens 1,000, which is the case with most battles.
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6cc1c6b
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Mister Lipwig, the world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can. And in my experience, those who say that it can be done are usually telling the truth. It's just a matter of thinking creatively.
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vetinari
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c1eff00
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Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
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terry-pratchett
weapons
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48fbcb3
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No,' she said. 'No, I don't reckon that's what I do now. Are you watchin', Mrs Gogol? Are you watchin' real close?' Her gaze travelled the room and rested for just a fraction of a second on Magrat. Then she reached over, carefully, and thrust her arm up to the elbow into the burning torch. And the doll in Erzulie Gogol's hands burst into flame.
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witches
granny-weatherwax
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Terry Pratchett |
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6d96e37
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Aargh! I'm too short for this shit!
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short
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Terry Pratchett |
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abf97b5
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Well, basically, there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever."
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9211e74
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Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look. "The Stealer of Souls," he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, "Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the--" ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN."
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Terry Pratchett |
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b5c513d
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Tomorrow here is just like yesterday, warmed over.
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Terry Pratchett |
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ce4bc7d
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You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.
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9eae74f
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I see embarrassment among all of you. That's good. The thing about being embarrassed is that sooner or later you aren't, but you remember that you were.
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People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but ..
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36bdd18
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It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
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science
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52a43da
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The horsemen came closer. Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He didn't like the sensation of being looked at by nostrils.
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humourous
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b20f557
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They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.
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the-hord
steal
teach
poor
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f9cbf30
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Just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.
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Terry Pratchett |
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14c99c1
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I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.
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d9405bf
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but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them.
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terry-pratchett
the-truth
the-city-watch
william-de-worde
pratchett
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Terry Pratchett |
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b161581
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There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.
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Terry Pratchett |
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6ba68f2
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Usually he didn't bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.
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Terry Pratchett |
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e10efb4
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Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a pickaxe, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side was a war axe, because the people who owned the land with the valuable minerals in it can be so unreasonable sometimes.
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humourous
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Terry Pratchett |
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dac5ed5
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Where do you think they've gone?' he said. 'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted. 'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.' 'Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.' 'But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?' Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile. 'Most people seem to manage,' she said. She reached across the table..
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ramkin
vimes
sybil
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cdf305c
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What's Ephebe like?" said Ptraci. "I've never been there. Apparently it's ruled by a Tyrant." "I hope we don't meet him, then" Teppic shook his head. "It's not like that," he said. "They have a new Tyrant every five years and they do something to him first." He hesitated. "I think they ee-lect him." "Is that something like they do to tomcats and bulls and things?" "Er." "You know. To make them stop fighting and be more peaceful." Teppic win..
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