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Off Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- 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 have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my…
- 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've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author…
- Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be…
- The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the…
- Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.
- Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it…
- Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided…
- Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
- Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and…
- Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has…
- 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,…
- Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows."…
- Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction…
- 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 can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides…
- Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.
- He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went…
- Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.
- It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the…
- Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.
- Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way…
- I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds."…
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- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
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- I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you… — David Axelrod
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- Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey