Sides Quotes by Terry Pratchett

11 Sides quotes by Terry Pratchett

Pratchett loved to spin the mundane into the magical, and his eleven lines on sides do just that. Expect a playful twist on choosing camps, with the humor that makes his observations linger.

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The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

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Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

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There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

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It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are…

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I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the…

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A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?…

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It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy,…

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I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley…

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The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears…

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You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different…

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There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below,…

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“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.”

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“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as…

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“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

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“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…

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It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family…

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You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

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“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,…

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A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

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“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.…

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“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.”

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“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving…

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“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.…

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