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From Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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…
- I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from…
- 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…
- If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then…
- 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.…
- She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about…
- Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of…
- Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of…
- Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
- And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot…
- I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.
- Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
- There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that.…
- I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which…
- I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that…
- It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but…
- Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said…
- The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has…
- Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need…
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