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“No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

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“A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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

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“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

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“Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

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“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

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“When in doubt, choose to live.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

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“Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it."

"No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Cited in Power Quotes: For Life, Business, and Leadership (2018) by Danai Krokou, ISBN 1-63157-750-6
General sources
Source: Wyrd Sisters

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“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

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“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

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“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

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“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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

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“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”

Terry Pratchett book Soul Music

Source: Soul Music

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“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Variant: It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Source: Men at Arms: The Play

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“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

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“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather