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TERRY PRATCHETT She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who... TERRY PRATCHETT ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting ca... TERRY PRATCHETT I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental worki... TERRY PRATCHETT Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! TERRY PRATCHETT Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, yo... TERRY PRATCHETT But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy ... TERRY PRATCHETT Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. TERRY PRATCHETT The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the tu... TERRY PRATCHETT And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think o... TERRY PRATCHETT Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to. TERRY PRATCHETT You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all t... TERRY PRATCHETT How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don’t know how to use it?’ Not me, ... TERRY PRATCHETT I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains ... TERRY PRATCHETT But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat. TERRY PRATCHETT Night, forever. But within it, a city, shadowy and only real in certain ways. The entity cower... TERRY PRATCHETT Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get... TERRY PRATCHETT Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The facul... TERRY PRATCHETT It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination. TERRY PRATCHETT Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying... TERRY PRATCHETT We can't just drop everything, sir!" "Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' yo... TERRY PRATCHETT Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought. TERRY PRATCHETT And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. 'What for?' 'Sign of a good berserk, taki... TERRY PRATCHETT Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a hap... TERRY PRATCHETT His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spell... TERRY PRATCHETT Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. TERRY PRATCHETT (About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as... TERRY PRATCHETT Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dea... TERRY PRATCHETT And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally ... TERRY PRATCHETT Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg! TERRY PRATCHETT HOROSCOPE: Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequ... TERRY PRATCHETT And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: W... TERRY PRATCHETT I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors... TERRY PRATCHETT Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to d... TERRY PRATCHETT The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they ... TERRY PRATCHETT Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowni... TERRY PRATCHETT Did she help people?" Miss Level added. ... ... "She made them help one another, she ... TERRY PRATCHETT She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education,... TERRY PRATCHETT The Patrician took a sip of his beer. “I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I ... TERRY PRATCHETT Well, yes, but it's not about the football." "You're saying that football is not about football... TERRY PRATCHETT I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own papercli... TERRY PRATCHETT Many bad things were done under the Evil Empire" she said. "The best we can do now is undo them. Wil... TERRY PRATCHETT Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, ... TERRY PRATCHETT