Terry Pratchett Quotes

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• You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
• There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
• Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was…
• Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
• It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort…
• Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the…
• Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest…
• Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the…
• At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
• A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white…
• Things have no power that humans don't put there.
• She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But…
• 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 wish, and magic…
• Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground…
• Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the…
• Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither…
• But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight…
• What's the orbital velocity of the moon?
• Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

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