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Terry Pratchett Inspirational Quotes (821)

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Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.
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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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Shoes, men, coffins never accept the first one you see.
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Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.
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And gears, said Anathema. My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears. Crowley leaned over to the angel. Oh lord, heal this bike, he whispered sarcastically. I'm sorry, I just got carried away, hissed Aziraphale.
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It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.
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Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
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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.
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If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.
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Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.
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SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.
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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
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For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.
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What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
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Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.
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I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
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A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.
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As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
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You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.
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There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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