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“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Variant: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Variant: Now... if you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spenttime working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.
Source: The Wee Free Men

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?”

Terry Pratchett book Mort

Source: Mort

“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”

Terry Pratchett book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Variant: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Source: Reaper Man

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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