"Humans need fantasy in order to be human." — Terry Pratchett

"Humans need fantasy in order to be human."

— Terry Pratchett

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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett has 1,149 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and… — Dario Argento
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics… — Michele Bachmann
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more… — Amy Adams
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're… — Scott Bakula
There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real… — Christian Bale
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its… — J. G. Ballard
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.… — John Banville
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and… — Charles Baudelaire
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. — Max Beerbohm
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. — Manolo Blahnik

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