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#1

“The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

tags: funny, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women

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#2

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: crowds, intelligence, mob-rule, mobs, people

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#3

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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#4

“...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

tags: ageing, humor

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#5

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

tags: paraphrased

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#6

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness

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#7

“I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?'
If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: humor, interrogation, police, violence

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#8

“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

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#9

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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#10

“...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy

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#11

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

tags: hogfather, lies, truth

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#12

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

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