Terry Pratchett Quotes - Page 6

• Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Logic, Wonderful

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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  Taxation, Way, Sophisticated

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

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  Listening, Wish, Be Careful

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.18, Random House

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• Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fire, Air, Water

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• There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

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  Funny Inspirational, Opposites, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.177, Random House

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

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  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

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  Believe, Needs, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.409, Random House

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• You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

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  Hands, Stuck Up, Abstract

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• Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

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  Travel, Adventure, Sleep

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• I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Filled

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• It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

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  Lying, Thinking, People

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• I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

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  People, Use, Limits

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.40, Random House

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• We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

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  Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.52, Random House

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• but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

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  Men, Years, Law

  Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.19, Random House

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• The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

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  Ideas, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

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  World

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• - I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

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  Kings, Laughing, Black

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.385, Random House

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• Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

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  Cheer, Cheer Me Up, Ingenuity

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

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  Stupid, May, Daft

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)”, p.154, Random House

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• 'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'

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  Funny, Thinking, Leaving

  "Good Omens". Book by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, 1990.

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• Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

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  Sex, Fun, Writing

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• At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

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  Science, Important, Fundamentals

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• The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

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  Funny, Travel, Home

  "The Ghost Girl and the Naked Savage" by James Hynes, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

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• Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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  Perspective, World, This World

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• Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

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  Alive, Might, Lasts

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