Quotes from book
Pyramids

Name: Pyramids
Author: Terry Pratchett

Pyramids is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1989, the seventh book in his Discworld series. It won the BSFA Awards in 1989.

“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”

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“It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.”

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“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”

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“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

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“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”

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“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”

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“All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.”

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“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”

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