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YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.
People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.
Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.
The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.
Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.
I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.
He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.
It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.
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.
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.
No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.
When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.
Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.
Mr. Tulip lived his life on that thin line most people occupy just before they haul off and hit someone repeatedly with a wrench.