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“The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“Now," snapped the Dean, "we've searchedfor a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent

“His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?
Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.”

Terry Pratchett book Johnny and the Dead

Source: Johnny and the Dead

“Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.”

Terry Pratchett book Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

“That's what I don't like about magic. It does everything by magic.”

Terry Pratchett Thud!

Source: Thud!

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, asthe darkness.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

“Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.”

Terry Pratchett book Good Omens

Source: Good Omens

“The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.

And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

Terry Pratchett book Nation

Source: Nation

“Cake is not the issue here.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent

“The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”

Terry Pratchett book Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay