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“Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He’d been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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“He'd said to Vimes once, in this very room, standing at this very window: They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

tags: government, humor, morality, philosophy, politics

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“It’s a small world,” I observed.
“When you put it in a cemetery, it is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

tags: dark-humor

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“When I die,” said Lawn, inspecting the patient, “I’m going to instruct them to put a bell on my tombstone, just so’s I can have the pleasure of not getting up when people ring.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: humor

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“Oh,” said Hazel, “they reacted just about the way the grownups did. They just looked at it and didn’t say anything, just moved on to see what the next thing was.”
“What was the next thing?”
“It was an iron chair a man had been roasted alive in,” said Crosby. “He was roasted for murdering his son.”
“Only, after they roasted him,” Hazel recalled blandly, “they found out he hadn’t murdered his son after all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

tags: cruel, irony, realistic, sad, satire

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