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History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it! (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The Sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth the effort (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror’s defeat (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Educational refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm. At the time this was the last thing on my mind (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can’t avoid it (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The best research is the research that you don’t know that you are doing (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
You’ve got a lot of time for abstract thought when you’ve got your hand stuck up a dead badger (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
They’d smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
I wouldn’t trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire! (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
They didn’t know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you’re alive, when you really shouldn’t be (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
Oh, well... up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
The 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 Pratchett Quotes)
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
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 (Terry Pratchett Quotes)
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having (Terry Pratchett Quotes)