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Happen Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Things just happen. What the hell.
- Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside…
- You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened…
- Progress just means bad things happen faster.
- Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.
- Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,…
- The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew…
- Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are…
- People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.
- That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
- Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough,…
- You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d…
- Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen…
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- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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