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Great Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
- In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said…
- And the new day was a great big fish
- Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?…
- Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally…
- Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided…
- Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there,…
- And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!
- The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were…
- You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.…
- Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them…
- Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of…
- They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had…
- I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
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