Terry Pratchett quotes - page 2

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life. (Terry Pratchett)
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. View quote
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact. View quote
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Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. View quote
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Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. View quote
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He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. View quote
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. View quote
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I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice. View quote
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. View quote
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There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this. View quote
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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. (Terry Pratchett)
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. View quote
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. View quote
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There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise. View quote
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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. View quote
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. View quote
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. View quote
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If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander. View quote
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... it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. View quote
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You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs. View quote
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They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down... (Terry Pratchett)
They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged. View quote
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I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly. View quote
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Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). View quote
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While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well. View quote
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