“Brilliant constellations shone down on the Discworld. One by one the traders shuttered their shops. One by one the ganefs, thieves, finewirers, whores, illusionists, backsliders and second-story men awoke and breakfasted. Wizards went about their polydimensional affairs. Tonight saw the conjunction of two powerful planets, and already the air over the Magical Quarter was hazy with early spells.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
“The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.”
― The Comedians
― The Comedians
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”
― Justine
― Justine
“What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.”
― Justine
― Justine
“for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
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