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“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

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“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Variant: If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

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“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

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“The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”

Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals

Source: Unseen Academicals

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“Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”

Terry Pratchett book The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

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“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combatting the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon…”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

alt.fan.pratchett (30 May 1998) http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/msg/31c9fbae84e0fc8c <br class="br">Usenet

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“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

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“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo

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“Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Interesting Times: The Play

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“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

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“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

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“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

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“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!