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Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.
A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.
What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!
Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.
This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.
History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.
The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.
When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.
Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.
If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.
People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.
- DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER.
This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.
Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.
I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.
I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.
We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.
Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.
There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.
The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it