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I am a harmless old seller of apples," she said, in a voice more appropriate for the opening of hostilities in a middle-range war. "Pray let me past, dearie." The last word had knives in it. "No-one must enter the castle," said one of the guards. "Orders of the duke." Granny shrugged. The apple-seller gambit had never worked more than once in the entire history of witchcraft, as far as she knew, but it was traditional. "I know you, Champett..
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I've never had occasion to use one magnificent tip from a well-known author, but I pass it on anyway: "Keep an eye on the trade press. When an editor moves on, immediately send your precious MS to his or her office, with a covering letter addressed to said departed editor. Say, in the tones of one engaged in a cooperative effort, something like this: 'Dear X, I was very pleased to receive your encouraging letter indicating your interest in ..
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Terry Pratchett |
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NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:
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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett |
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A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.
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magic
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Terry Pratchett |
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Do teachers go anywhere special when they die?' said Cohen. 'I don't think so,' said Mr Saveloy gloomily. He wondered for a moment whether there really was a great Free Period in the sky. It didn't sound very likely. Probably there would be some marking to do.
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Terry Pratchett |
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And it'd be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.
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He takes the view that mornings happen to other people. I think I once saw him at breakfast, although possibly it was just someone who looked a bit like him who was lying with their head in the plate of baked beans. He likes good sushi, and quite likes people, too, although not raw; he is kind to fans who are not total jerks, and enjoys talking to people who know how to talk. He doesn't look as though he's forty; that may have happened to s..
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Terry Pratchett |
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The book was commonly known as the Buggre Alle This Bible. The lengthy compositor's error, if such it may be called, occurs in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 48, verse five. 2. And bye the border of Dan, fromme the east side fo the west side, a portion for Afher. 3. And by the border of Afher, fromme the east side even untoe the west side, a portion for Naphtali. 4. And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side untoe the west side, a port..
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Surely you have considered terrorist activity?"
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humour
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Is that him?" said Sister Mary, staring at the baby. "Only I'd expected funny eyes. Red, or green. Or teensy-weensy little hoofikins. Or a widdle tail." She turned him around as she spoke. No horns either. The Devil's child looked ominously normal.
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hey, let me tell you about the weirdness, like when he was staying with us for the editing, and we heard a noise and went into his room and two of our white doves had got in and couldn't get out; they were panicking around the room and Neil was waking up in a storm of snowy white feathers saying, "Wstfgl?" which is his normal ante meridian vocabulary."
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Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoria de los grandes triunfos y grandes catastrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o malas en esencia, sino a que las personas son en esencia personas.
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spanish
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Crecemos leyendo cosas de piratas, de vaqueros, de naves espaciales y cosas asi, y cuando te crees que el mundo esta lleno de todo eso, van y te dicen que en verdad son todo ballenas muertas, bosques talados y residuos nucleares por ahi sueltos durante un millon de anos. Pues para eso no vale la pena crecer, mira tu por donde.
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A los que Crowley no podia soportar era a esos que se llamaban a si mismos satanicos. No solo por lo que hacian, sino por la mania que tenian de achacarselo todo al Infierno. Se les ocurria alguna idea vomitiva que no se le pasaria a un demonio por la cabeza ni en un millon de anos, alguna atrocidad oscura y descerebrada que solo una mente humana hecha y derecha podria concebir, y luego gritaban: <>, y se qu..
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Now if seen him, really there, really alive, it'd be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched 'em like a father and cared for 'em like a mother . . . well, you wouldn't catch me saying things like 'there are two sides to every question' and 'we must respect other people's beliefs.' You wouldn't find being gen'rally nice in the hope that it'd all turn out right in the end..
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truth
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Contrary to popular belief, fantasy is not about making things up. The world is stuffed full of things. It is almost impossible to invent any more. No, the role of fantasy as defined by G. K. Chesterton is to take what is normal and everyday and usual and unregarded, and turn it around and show it to the audience from a different direction, so that they look at it once again with new eyes.
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Terry Pratchett |
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You didn't warn us about this, Readier,' said Stowley resentfully. Gilt waved his hands. 'We must speculate to accumulate!' he said. 'The Post Office? Trickery and sleight of hand. Oh, von Lipwig is an ideas man, but that's all he is. He's made a splash, but he's not got the stamina for the long haul. Yet as it turns out he will do us a favour. Perhaps we have been . . . a little smug, a little lax, but we have learned our lesson! Spurred b..
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customers
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So many people never seemed to think about the consequences of their everyday actions. And then a witch on her broom would have to set out from her bed in the rain in the dead of night because of "I only" and its little friends "I didn't know" and "It's not my fault." "I only wanted to see if the copper was hot . . . " "I didn't know a boiling pot was dangerous . . . " "It's not my fault--no one told me dogs that bark might also bite." And ..
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And something that distinguishes the Mr. Windlings of the universe is the term "in my humble opinion," which they think adds weight to their statements rather than indicating, in reality, "these are the mean little views of someone with the social grace of duckweed."
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Oh dear...I've never really liked the Yanks.
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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called witches and wizards, Magrat reflected, as she followed the other two back to the road. It was probably some wonderful organization on the part of Nature to protect itself. It saw to it that everyone with any magical talent was about as ready to cooperate as a she-bear with toothache, so all that dangerous power was safely dissipated as random bickering and ..
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Who was it under the chair?" said Windle. "That was Schleppel," said Lupine. "We think he's a bogeyman." "Are bogeymen undead?" "He won't say." "You've never seen him? I thought bogeymen hid under things and, er, behind things and sort of leapt out at people." "He's all right on the hiding. I don't think he likes the leaping out," said Lupine. Windle thought about this. An agoraphobic bogeyman seemed to complete the full set."
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Crowley's London flat was the epitome of style. It was everything that a flat should be: spacious, white, elegantly furnished, and with that designer unlived in look that only comes from not being lived in.
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Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
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How do you think it will happen?' 'Well, thermonuclear extinction has always been very popular. Although the big boys are being quite polite to each other at the moment.' 'Asteroid strike?' said Aziraphale. 'Quite the fashion these days, I understand. Strike into the Indian Ocean, great big cloud of dust and vapour, goodbye all higher life forms.' 'Wow,' said Crowley. taking care to exceed the speed limit. Every little helped. 'Doesn't bea..
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Oh, the grand old Duke of York He had Ten Thousand Men
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Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
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Then he lit some incense, which was not necessary but did make the place smell nice.
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Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |
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Do you know what this is? .. This is a Sainsbury's plant mister
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They) weren't, when you got right down to it,
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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett |
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And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street." "Sweeney Jones," said Vimes. "Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn't mean to. He was just very bad at shaving--"
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Terry Pratchett |
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several hundred thousand dollars in a challenging, relevant, and exciting systemic overhaul of our entire organization, focusing on our core competencies while maintaining full and listening cooperation with the communities we are proud to serve. We fully realize that our energetic attempts to mobilize the flawed infrastructure we inherited have been less than totally satisfactory, and hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will..
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Fixing things together. Empathy and cooperation - good Buddhist principles, by the way. Fixing a flawed creation so that it can nurture life and mind, for ever - even beyond the end of time, perhaps.
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Terry Pratchett |
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You were a wizard. What caused all that?" "I think it was probably an inexplicable phenomenon," said Windle. "There's a lot of them about, for some reason. I wish I knew why."
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Terry Pratchett |
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One lifetime isn't enough OH I DON'T KNOW Hmmm? WINDLE POONS? Yes? THAT WAS YOUR LIFE And with great relief and general optimism, and a feeling that on the whole everything could have been much worse, Windle Poons died.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
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Terry Pratchett |
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My programming language was solder.
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Terry Pratchett |
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In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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Terry Pratchett |
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It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then!
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Terry Pratchett |
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bc01823
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Nerds are the only people who know how to operate the video recorder.
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Terry Pratchett |
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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
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Terry Pratchett |
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What your soldier wants -- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him.
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Terry Pratchett |
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A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.
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Terry Pratchett |
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I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
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Terry Pratchett |
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I have to admit that I drive past Bridgwater quite regularly. And fast.
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Terry Pratchett |