Terry Pratchett quotes - page 14

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones. (Terry Pratchett)
It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange. View quote
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If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice. View quote
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Insanity is catching. View quote
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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. View quote
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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... View quote
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Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self. View quote
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Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. View quote
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Progress just means bad things happen faster. View quote
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Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. View quote
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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother. (Terry Pratchett)
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind. View quote
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Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs. View quote
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This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do. View quote
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Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It's a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. View quote
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Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house. View quote
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Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. View quote
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She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it. View quote
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Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. View quote
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Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. View quote
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They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be. (Terry Pratchett)
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue. View quote
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The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine. View quote
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I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns,... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J. K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy. View quote
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Open your eyes and then open your eyes again. View quote
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