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

Terry Pratchett

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

“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

“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

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

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“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

“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
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Source: Wyrd Sisters

“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

“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

“Progress just means bad things happen faster.”

Terry Pratchett book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

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

Terry Pratchett

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

“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

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

Terry Pratchett

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

“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

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

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.”

Terry Pratchett book Eric

Source: Eric

“Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax couldin a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.”

Terry Pratchett