“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Mort
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Mort
“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
“My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
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