"Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in……" — Terry Pratchett
"Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic."
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
— Stephen King
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I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail…
— Ann Hood
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past.…
— Ernest Lawrence
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all…
— Robbie Robertson
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I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and…
— Laurence Olivier
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Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and…
— Barry Nelson
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
— Peter Ustinov
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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She…
— Erica Jong
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and…
— Michel Gondry
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A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some…
— Paul Muni
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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