"But the purpose of the book is not……" — Terry Pratchett

"But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat."

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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

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You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats…
Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't,…
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they…
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube…
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison,…
Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this…
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed…
Things have no power that humans don't put there.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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