The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living". — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in… — 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
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. — 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
I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the… — 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
I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people. — 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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