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Terry Pratchett Inspirational Quotes (821)

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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.
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ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS.
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Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.
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William: I'm sure we can all pull together, sir. Vetinari: Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.
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I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
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One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.
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And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: Psst!
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And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
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The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.
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The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
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Things just happen. What the hell.
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Cake is not the issue here.
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The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
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Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.
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Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!
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Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
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Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
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And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.
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I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do', but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
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