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“The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.”

Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals

Source: Unseen Academicals

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“… no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away… The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

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“And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions.”

Terry Pratchett book Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

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“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”

Terry Pratchett book Eric

Source: Eric

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“I thought unicorns were more… Fluffy.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

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“He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

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“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent

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“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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“Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Bromeliad Trilogy

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“You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”

Terry Pratchett book Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

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“Million-to-one chances… crop up nine times out of ten.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

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“We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.'

Precisely,' said a passing bush.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

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“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

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“Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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

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“Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

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“The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

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“It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo