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- 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…
- Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them…
- They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the…
- They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is…
- Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely…
- Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.
- Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have…
- Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But…
- Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in…
- You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this…
- It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the…
- Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.
- There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes…
- Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was…
- It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
- Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of…
- Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were,…
- First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking…
- Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized…
- Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
- THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR…
- You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking…
- Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
- 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.
- People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster