Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 7

• Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alive, Might, Lasts

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• If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Powerful, Fantasy Stories

  "Terry Pratchett Toast" by Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

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• Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Armageddon, Good Omens

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Stories, Firsts

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2018

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• Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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  Perspective, World, This World

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

  Terry Pratchett

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Soul, Discworld, My Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2013). “Going Postal: Stage Adaptation”, p.15, A&C Black

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• Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

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  Assassins, Certain, Code

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• Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

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  Humans, Seeing

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.333, Random House

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• Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, People, Evil

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

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  Long, Forever, Enough

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “The Truth: Stage Adaptation”, p.125, A&C Black

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• Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

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  Eye, Whole Life, Dies

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• Freedom without limits is just a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Limits

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• There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Food, Beer

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• I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

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  Fire, Missing, House

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• I try to make computers say things like You have 60 seconds to achieve safe distance.

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  Distance, Trying, Safe

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• Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

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  Advisors, Madmen, Interesting Times

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

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  Men, Honest, Ends

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 17, 2016

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• Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.

  Terry Pratchett

  Worst, Worst Day

  Source: www.karsmakers.nl

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• You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

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  Running, Hurt, Betrayal

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• You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

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  Clever, Men, Brain

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.342, Random House

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• We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?

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  Awake, Our Lives, Ifs

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• Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

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  Stars, Lying, Stupid

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• Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

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  Listening, Wish, Be Careful

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.18, Random House

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• but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

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  Men, Years, Law

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.19, Random House

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