Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 53

• He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

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  Book, Imagination, Interesting

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• Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

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  Belief, Opinion, Manners

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.87, Random House

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• Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

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  Remember You, Remembers You, Citizens

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• Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.

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  Dog, Couple, Hands

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• You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

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  Hands, Together, Praying

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• I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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  Pain, Fire, Should Have

  "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2010.

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• Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

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  Hate, Ems, Students

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• Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock

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  Jocks, Bigger, Mediums

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• People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

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  Eye, People, Dying

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

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• Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

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  Trust, Pyramids, Smirk

  "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 171), January 2008.

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• Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

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  Interesting, Ponies, Want

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• The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

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  Doe, Harvest, Reaper

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• The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

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  Running, Islands, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.150, Random House

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• The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

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  Not Sure, Sane, Turnips

  Terry Pratchett (2007). “Making Money”, Harper

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• As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

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  World, Bricks, Patient

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.10, Random House

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• And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

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  Dream, Memories, Loss

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.360, Random House

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• Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

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  Country, Teacher, Teaching

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• When I am old I shall wear midnight.

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  Midnight

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• And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

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  Magic, Doe, Captains

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• His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

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  Cat, Movement, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

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  Circles, Enemy, Moved On

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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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