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    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: cats, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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    Terry Pratchett
    “In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
    tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science
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    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
    tags: cats, death, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: discworld, humor, humour, teaching
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: aspiration, dream, work
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    Terry Pratchett
    “She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
    ― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
    Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: alcohol, death, drinking, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
    tags: death, humor
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    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
    tags: magic, technology
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    Terry Pratchett
    “HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
    tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “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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    Terry Pratchett
    “This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: ageing, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
    tags: death, gallows-humor, humor, laughing
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    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!
    tags: cynicism, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: death, immortality, remembrance
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
    tags: drunkenness, insanity
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  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
    tags: humor, insanity, religion, war
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