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“frightening” and “dangerous” are two different things.
“That was always the dream, wasn’t it? “I wish I knew then what I know now”? But when you got older, you found out that you now wasn’t you then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp. A much better dream, one that’d ensure sounder sleep, was not to know now what you didn’t know then.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“But we could win now, Sarge,” said Sam. “No, we can’t. But we can put off losing until it doesn’t hurt too much.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.
You could say: I will deal with this.
You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
You could say: I will deal with this.
You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
“Yes, sarge, but you do bop people over the head.’ ‘Interesting point, lance-constable. Logical and well made, too, in a clear tone of voice bordering on the bloody cheeky. But there’s a big difference.’ ‘And what’s that, sarge?’ ‘You’ll find out,’ said Vimes. And privately thought: the answer is, It’s Me Doing It. I’ll grant that it is not a good answer, because people like Carcer use it too, but that’s what it boils down to. Of course, it’s also to stop me knifing them and, let’s be frank, them knifing me. That’s quite important, too.”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
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