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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
    Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

  • #2
    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “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!

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “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

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “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

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.”
    Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
    Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

  • #11
    Terry Pratchett
    “The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".”
    Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “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

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “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

  • #15
    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
    Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #17
    Kurt Tucholsky
    “Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel lehren Demut, das brauche ich für meine Charakterentwicklung.”
    Kurt Tucholsky, Schloß Gripsholm

  • #18
    Clarice Lispector
    “I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.”
    Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

  • #19
    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #20
    Samuel Beckett
    “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
    Samuel Beckett, Murphy

  • #21
    Samuel Beckett
    “Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #22
    James Joyce
    “Life is too short to read a bad book.”
    James Joyce

  • #23
    James Joyce
    “Let my country die for me.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses
    tags: war

  • #24
    James Joyce
    “if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #25
    Natsume Sōseki
    “It is not you in particular that I distrust, but the whole of humanity.”
    Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

  • #26
    Natsume Sōseki
    “Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”
    Natsume Sōseki, Light and Darkness

  • #27
    Natsume Sōseki
    “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

  • #28
    Terry Pratchett
    “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



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