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Out Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was…
- I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.
- Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then…
- The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab…
- There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,…
- 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.…
- A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse…
- She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she…
- Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.
- Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But…
- SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION,…
- Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
- Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
- 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…
- Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
- The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
- I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As…
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
- 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…
- In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down…
- Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful…
- The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski…
- 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…
- Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.
- What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,…
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