Terry Pratchett quotes - page 33

Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that. (Terry Pratchett)
It was a nice day. View quote
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Tiffany thought of the little spot in the woods where Granny Weatherwax lay. Remembered. And knew that You had been right. Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere. View quote
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I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo. "I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try? View quote
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He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid. View quote
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Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage. View quote
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Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods. View quote
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I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY. View quote
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Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses. View quote
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Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people. -Nanny Ogg. View quote
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All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing. (Terry Pratchett)
There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell. View quote
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And then there was the headless horseman!" said Tiffany. "He had no head!" "Well, that is the major job qualification," said the toad. View quote
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Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science. View quote
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No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. View quote
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Just because you're a zombie doesn't mean you're a bad person. View quote
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Old gods do new jobs. View quote
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An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean. View quote
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It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. View quote
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I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. (Terry Pratchett)
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. View quote
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Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. View quote
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I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? View quote
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There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory. View quote
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