Mind Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

— Terry Pratchett

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

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Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

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There was no himself in himself.

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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.

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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

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Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

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“The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.”

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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

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Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

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“He could feel certainty draining away. And he’d always been certain.”

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Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of…

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“Andrews had probably been some innocent and hospitable person of a psychic disposition who had simply been overwhelmed by the colonizing souls.”

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I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed…

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Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat…

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But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started…

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The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is.…

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“He would sit all night under the lamp, book of the moment in front of him, dictionary and thesaurus on either side,…

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His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity…

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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative…

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“He wondered what it was like in the Patrician’s mind. All cold and shiny, he thought, all blued steel and icicles and…

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The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your…

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I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in…

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So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive…

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“And in this doleful mood he ventured to wonder if they ever thought back to when things were just old-fangled or not…

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Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to…

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Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical…

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Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done…

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“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits…

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things…

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And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from…

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I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.…

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They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

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Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word…

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...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best…

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First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave…

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