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Terry Pratchett Inspirational Quotes (821)

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The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.
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Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.
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He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
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After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.
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This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
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What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.
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I never said nothing... I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!
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I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
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Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.
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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?
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.
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Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.
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The best research you can do is to talk to people.
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Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
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Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?
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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
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If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.
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The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.
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Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
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Don't look back! Why not? Because I just did! Run faster!
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Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
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The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
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