Terry Pratchett quotes - page 13

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. (Terry Pratchett)
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs. View quote
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Tolkien's dead. J. K. Rowling said no. Philip Pullman couldn't make it. Hi, I'm Terry Pratchett. View quote
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If Not You, Who Else? View quote
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The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you. View quote
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This book was written using 100% recycled words. View quote
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Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. View quote
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Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn't trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror. View quote
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It's still magic even if you know how it's done. View quote
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And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. View quote
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Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend. (Terry Pratchett)
Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? View quote
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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. View quote
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. View quote
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If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. View quote
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And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death. View quote
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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. View quote
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If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. View quote
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Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. View quote
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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. View quote
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... inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. (Terry Pratchett)
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. View quote
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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious. View quote
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I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. View quote
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I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor. View quote
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