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Them Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
- Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
- Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the…
- She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But…
- 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…
- There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or…
- 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.…
- Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a…
- And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is…
- The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words…
- You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know…
- And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier…
- 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,…
- I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
- Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.…
- Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
- You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
- The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you…
- 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…
- 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…
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