Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 49

• You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.

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  Thinking, Wind, Interesting

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• Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

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  Death, Magic, Lasts

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• He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

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  Spring, Rivers, Water

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

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• When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

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  Kings, Speech, Kind

  "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

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• Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

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  War, Long, History

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• If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

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  Goodbye, Father, Bed

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• Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

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  Mps, Feelings, Kind

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• Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly being dragged off certain people, just think to what good causes they could be put - wouldn't that be a lovely thought'?

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  Thinking, Government, People

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• It's hard to be famous and alive.

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  Alive, Hard

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• Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

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  Love Is, Burning, Ears

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• Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

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  Magic, Way, Knows

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.175, Random House

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• When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful.

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  Dark, Two, Mirrors

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• There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

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  Treasure, Opponents, Triumph

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• I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

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  Thinking, People, Sick

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• I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

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  Reading, Bankers, Lines

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• I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

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  Circles, Apples, Microsoft

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• Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

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  Heaven, Dumb, Sake

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• Up until now I'd always though RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.

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  Jobs, Hate, I Hate

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• You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

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  Long, Looks, Scum

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• Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

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  Book, Dark, Men

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• I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

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  Book, Fall, People

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• It's a god-eat-god world.

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  World

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

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• The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

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  Spring, Fall, Rocks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.160, Random House

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• And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

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  Eye, Glasses, Broken

  "The Truth". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2000.

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• Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

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  Real, Mean, Being Real

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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