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Terry Pratchett796
English author 1948–2015Related quotes
“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”
Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care
Variant: Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
Source: Handle with Care
“We decided to go ahead with David O. (Selznick) the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully!”
Michael Powell (1905–1990) English film director
Attributed
“If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.”
Frances Hardinge book Fly by Night
Source: Fly by Night
“Sometimes I think our central bank will keep printing money till we run out of trees.”
Jim Rogers (1942) American writer
The Downward Spiral http://www.jimrogers.com/content/stories/articles/THE_DOWNWARD_SPIRAL.htm
“You're life is a print-out of your thoughts.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 116
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet
As quoted in The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) by Isaiah Berlin
Variant translations:
The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing.
The fox knows many tricks; the hedgehog one good one.
The fox knows many tricks; and the hedgehog only one; but that is the best one of all.
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