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#1

“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
― Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

tags: humor, literary-criticism, school-lessons

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#2

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: magic, technology

1245 likes

#3

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: cynicism, humor, life

966 likes

#4

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: hogfather, lies, truth

285 likes

#5

“Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

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#6

“It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

218 likes

#7

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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#8

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: writer-s-block

146 likes

#9

“People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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#10

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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#11

“The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

147 likes

#12

“One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: humor, sarcasm

89 likes

#13

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor

1038 likes

#14

“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

1037 likes

#15

“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

tags: paraphrased

477 likes

#16

“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: dare, taunt

285 likes

#17

“Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel lehren Demut, das brauche ich für meine Charakterentwicklung.”
― Kurt Tucholsky, Schloß Gripsholm

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#18

“I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

tags: identity, individuality

39 likes

#19

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

tags: life, planets, space-travel

1508 likes

#20

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

tags: beckett, great-first-lines, murphy, opening-lines

544 likes

#21

“Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”
― Samuel Beckett

67 likes

#22

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
― James Joyce

471 likes

#23

“Let my country die for me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: war

204 likes

#24

“if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

41 likes

#25

“It is not you in particular that I distrust, but the whole of humanity.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

115 likes

#26

“Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Light and Darkness

tags: introspection, overthinking, self-indulgence, thinking

58 likes

#27

“It would seem that for my master a book is not a thing to be read, but a device to bring on slumber: a typographical sleeping-pill, a paginated security blanket.”
― Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat

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#28

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

tags: cats, death, life

3630 likes

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