Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 42

• But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Thinking, Might

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

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  Space, Dragons, Trying

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

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  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

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  World, Noise, Ifs

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• Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

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  Voiceless, Blind, Meek

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• All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

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  Mirrors, Pyramids, Insulting

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• If Not You, Who Else?

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  Ifs

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• It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

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  Air, Sound, Loud

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.199, Random House

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• Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

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  Running, Doors, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.84, Random House

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• Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

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  Nice, Mean, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.11, Random House

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• DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

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  Grumpiness, Sugar, Notes

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• Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

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  Kings, Association, Management

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

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  Children, Real, Drug

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• Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.

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  Real, Perfect, Cheese

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.315, Random House

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• I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?

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  Fate, Men, Wind

  "A Hat Full of Sky". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

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• The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

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• Chances are where you find them

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  Chance, Chances Are

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• Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

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  Knowing, People, Knows

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.103, Random House

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• Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

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  Mind, Paper, Discworld

  "Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 114), 1992.

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• You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

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  Men, Hands, Vetinari

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• In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.

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  Missing, Defiance, Belle

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• Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

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  Nineteen, Four, Language

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• Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

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  Drunk, Funeral, Gone

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• It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

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  Moon, Piano, Yellow

  "Sourcery (Discworld, Book 5)". Book by Terry Pratchett, May 26, 1988.

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• People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

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  Names, People, Legs

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