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Needs Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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…
- 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…
- You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.
- Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
- You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
- Humans need fantasy in order to be human.
- 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…
- Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
- Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in…
- ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious…
- I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm".…
- Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her…
- Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need…
- Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
- Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
- The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,…
- You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes.
- The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now…
- They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and…
- but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for…
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