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Short Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
- The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
- I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if…
- There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely…
- Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.…
- Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.
- The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and…
- Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as…
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