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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1d8bb6c | There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4f2b529 | And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it... | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b62f655 | And, er, these stories about you..." "Oh, all true. Most of them. A bit of exaggeration, but mostly true." "The one about the Citadel in Muntab and the Pash and the fish bone?" "Oh, yes." "But how did you get in where half a dozen armed and trained men couldn't even - ?" "I am a little man and I carry a broom," said Lu-Tze simply. "Everyone has some mess that needs clearing up. What harm is a man with a broom?" "What? And that was ?" "Well.. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 34c1d6e | Tiffany read the sign and smiled. "Aha," she said. There was nothing to knock on, so she added "Knock, knock" in a louder voice. A woman's voice from within said: "Who's there?" "Tiffany," said Tiffany. "Tiffany who?" said the voice. "Tiffany who isn't trying to make a joke." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b7b17b5 | People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh? And of course there clearly had to be, said Koomi, a Supreme Being. But since the universe was a bit of a mess, it was obvious that the Supreme Being hadn't in fact made it. If he had made it he would, being Supreme, have made a better job of it, with far better thought given, taking an example at random, to things like the design of the common n.. | humor prayer religion satire | Terry Pratchett | |
| e8650a1 | Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 296f1aa | It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f17be56 | Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested. | how-we-teach-reading-to-children reading | Terry Pratchett | |
| 205ef5f | Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1d17162 | My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8c0a5d8 | I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. | strength weakness | Terry Pratchett | |
| 392e954 | I imagine that fish have no word for water. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a838e98 | The universe was bad enough without people poking it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 45cb9b8 | It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b186a6a | You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8ee871e | Some magic is so old, it's hardly magic anymore. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2f610b1 | It's a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "Wow," a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening." | humour perception | Terry Pratchett | |
| ed01eee | As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b1e828a | Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fcc1db7 | No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical point: When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, but there is no one to hear it, does it - philosophically speaking - make a noise? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 56c6c2b | I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!" "What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons. "A tautology," said the Dean, from above." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 35a42fd | Well, I suppose there's no place like home," she said. "No," said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. "No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a399223 | You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn't it? Sorry. | life | Terry Pratchett | |
| dadbe1d | Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the saying that a lie could run around the world before Truth has got its, correction, her boots on, since she would have to choose which pair - the idea that any woman in a position to choose would have just one pair of boots being beyond rational belief. Indeed, as a goddess she would have lots of s.. | women | Terry Pratchett | |
| d31ca7e | Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?" "I'd much rather live quietly for one." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 996e46a | Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea. | nurses | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | |
| 1f4897c | The wizards held that, as servants of a higher truth, they were not subject to the mundane laws of the city. The Patrician said that, indeed, this was the case, but they would bloody well pay their taxes like everyone else. The wizards said that, as followers of the light of wisdom, they owed allegiance to no mortal man. The Patrician said that this may well be true but they also owed a city tax of two hundred dollars per head per annum, pa.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4c565d4 | Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line. | university wizard | Terry Pratchett | |
| a8f61b8 | Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e0808f3 | History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders. | sam-vimes war | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1d151dd | A VERY ACCURATE ONE. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON'T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 566dcbc | Rincewind trudged back up the beach. "The trouble is," he said, "is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ed85b9f | But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 856c8ec | Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world... | governments | Terry Pratchett | |
| c976314 | The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics. | funny | Terry Pratchett | |
| 153aaef | The Patrician took a sip of his beer. "I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-su.. | evil existentialism mothers patrician understanding | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6bf16a6 | Taxis are expensive for moderately employed dwarfs who rent extra apartments, swim at private clubs, and fancy themselves as righteous assassins. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| ea96b57 | After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| df8f998 | You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| db4f7cd | Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we'd received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 83f1bfe | It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 5eabae6 | Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen" | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| f85696c | That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. | life life-quotes literature living quotes | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 62c7a7c | And Clare, always Clare. | Audrey Niffenegger |