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Running Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals…
- 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…
- The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a…
- 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…
- Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need…
- The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
- Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other…
- 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…
- Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!
- 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…
- Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda…
- And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are…
- Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is…
- Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets…
- 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.
- The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
- Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
- 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…
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