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- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
- The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
- I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
- Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might…
- Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then…
- I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
- One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as…
- In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought…
- There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or…
- Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had…
- Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.…
- Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
- Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a…
- After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang.…
- Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide