Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 46

• I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'

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  Mother, Writing, Trying

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• Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

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  Lying

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• Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.

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  Ducks, Water, Car

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• Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

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  People, Witch, Granny

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction”, p.235, Random House

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• There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

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  Letting Go, Children, People

  "Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

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• It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

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  Hands, Long, Mad

  "Soul Music". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

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  Discworld, Small Gods, Chosen One

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.14, Random House

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• It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

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  Book, Crowns, Half

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• Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

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  Hero, People, Notes

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.441, Random House

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• I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

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  Believe, Ems, Nannies

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• OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

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  Noise, Said, Stockings

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• Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

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  Dream, Apples, Brain

  "Maskerade".

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• You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

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  Witty, Knows

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.142, Random House

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• And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

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  Girl, Running, Home

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.119, Random House

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• Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

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  Running, Looks, World

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Jun 03, 2015

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• He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

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  Drinking, Gowns, Champagne

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• He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

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  Kings, Moving, Simple

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• Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

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  Noses, Sticks

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• Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

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  Clever, Thinking, Eyebrows

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• I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

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  Veins, Behavior, Responsible

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• The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

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  People, Magic, Ordinary

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.304, Random House

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• This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

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  Art, Mirrors, Way

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.312, Random House

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• Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

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  Destiny, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 28, 2016

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• NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.

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  Nice, Mean, Naughty

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• I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

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  Silence, Said, Knows

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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