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Terry Pratchett Inspirational Quotes (821)

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Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
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Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.
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Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.
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He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.
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People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.
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So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.
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Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
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The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
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We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
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I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.
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But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
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The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
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It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.
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What's money interested in? More money.
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There was no himself in himself.
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Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
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This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
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Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
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The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
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