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Reaper Man

Name: Reaper Man
Author: Terry Pratchett

Reaper Man is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1991, it is the 11th Discworld novel and the second to focus on Death. The title is a reference to Alex Cox's movie Repo Man.

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

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“You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.”

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“He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.”

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“I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND.”

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“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

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“Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.

When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.”

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“Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.”

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“That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."

IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.”

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“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”

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“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

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“… no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away… The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”

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“If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged”

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“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

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“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”

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“YOU FEAR TO DIE?
"It's not that I don't want… I mean, I've always… it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break…”

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“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.”

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“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…”

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

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Variant: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
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“The reaper does not listen to the harvest.”

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