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Point Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the…
- It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films…
- Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had…
- Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.
- It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I…
- The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation…
- An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone…
- 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…
- It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
- I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence…
- What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?
- When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.
- Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a…
- …We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s…
- 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,…
- - I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST…
- It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
- No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns…
- You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.
- There’s no point in believing in things that exist.
- Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.
- 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…
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