Magic Quotes by Terry Pratchett

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

— Terry Pratchett

“It was like ... like wizardry, but without the wizards and the mess.”

— Terry Pratchett

“And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.”

— Terry Pratchett

You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !

— Terry Pratchett

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

— Terry Pratchett

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

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Magic never dies. It merely fades away.

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That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.

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A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And…

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People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

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“She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.”

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People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

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“Wizards are specially trained to see things that are there and not to see things that aren’t.”

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“Everything is magic when you don’t know what it is. Your sliding rule is a magic wand to most people.”

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“But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

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Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by…

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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour…

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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that…

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And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything,…

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We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really…

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They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their…

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“... darkness isn't the opposite of light, it is simply its absence, and what was radiating from the book was the light…

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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…

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Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in…

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Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where…

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“Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the…

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“Perhaps more importantly, the ants used all the sugar lumps they could steal to build a small sugar pyramid in one of…

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“I expect you know what this is, don’t you?” Rincewind stared down at the box. It had a round glass eye protruding…

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“It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made…

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Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you…

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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the…

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“Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard. “Er…aren’t…

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“What is magic? Then there is the witches' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on the age of the witch. Older…

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“Magic is one thing, and reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits is another.”

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“[...] a white magician is just a black magician with a good housekeeper.”

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“…magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass.”

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Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

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This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

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Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

— Terry Pratchett