Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.
Terry PratchettThe figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).
Terry PratchettAll assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.
Terry PratchettIf 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.
Terry PratchettOr -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
Terry PratchettLondon was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.
Terry PratchettFor example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.
Terry PratchettBotswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.
Terry PratchettMost species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
Terry PratchettIf you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry PratchettPeace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
Terry PratchettFear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.
Terry PratchettI do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.
Terry PratchettOf course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
Terry PratchettThe thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.
Terry PratchettThe only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
Terry PratchettI think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry PratchettThis I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.
Terry PratchettAn author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
Terry PratchettLight died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.
Terry PratchettHe moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.
Terry PratchettI have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.
Terry PratchettDeath strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.
Terry PratchettIt 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.
Terry PratchettCuriosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.
Terry PratchettThere are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.
Terry PratchettNanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
Terry Pratchettโฆ you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.
Terry PratchettIf you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.
Terry PratchettPeople couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Terry PratchettThe thing is, I mean, thereโs times when you look at the universe and you think, โWhat about me?โ and you can just hear the universe replying, โWell, what about you?โ
Terry PratchettYou just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.
Terry PratchettSome pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
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