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Terry Pratchett Inspirational Quotes (821)

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Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.
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Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.
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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.
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I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
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There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?
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History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
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He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.
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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.
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Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.
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It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.
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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.
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He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.
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Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
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They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker
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I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.
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An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
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Demons were like genies or philosophy professors - if you didn't word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.
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The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
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Don't you *ever* let go? I haven't yet. Why? I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.
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...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.
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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
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Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.
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Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
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