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Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. (Terry Pratchett)
Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All Gods are bastards. View quote
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You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes. View quote
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If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up. View quote
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You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem. View quote
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Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost? View quote
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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. View quote
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It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy. View quote
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You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. View quote
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Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY. View quote
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Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around. (Terry Pratchett)
Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes. View quote
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He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true. View quote
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You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home. View quote
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After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself. View quote
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See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin. View quote
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Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do. View quote
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It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time. View quote
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Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should. View quote
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Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face. View quote
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When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. (Terry Pratchett)
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip. View quote
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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day. View quote
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Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture. View quote
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... the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away. View quote
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