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“Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“I never said nothing…"
"I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave… you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Interesting Times: The Play

“Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just… well, things happening one after another.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song”

Terry Pratchett book Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

“No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Hero

Source: The Last Hero

“The city's full of people who you just see around.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms