No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in… — 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
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?"… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is where the gods play games with the lives of men, on a board which is at one and the same… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and… — 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
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