Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn’t really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Or, to put it another way, the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“years ago, when it underwent a rapid increase to the current level of 21%. The amount of oxygen in today’s atmosphere is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Child, you’ve come here to learn what’s true and what’s not, but there’s little I can teach you that you don’t already… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Life in this world,” he said, “is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It sucks all the life right out of you, civilisation." "It killed Old Vincent the Ripper," said Boy Willie. "He choked to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Lord Downey was an assassin. Or, rather, an Assassin. The capital letter was important. It separated those curs who went around murdering… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A few stars had been let out early. Teppic looked up at them. Perhaps, he thought, there is life somewhere else. On… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That’s what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there’s food to be caught and babies to be born and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn’t it? Sorry.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Usually he didn’t bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn’t bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few people.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
![“I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.” quote by Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/de0/terry-pratchett-19_believe_i-believe-in-reincarnation-bjorn-said-i_561839.jpg)
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