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Wyrd Sisters

Name: Wyrd Sisters
Author: Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988, and re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites.

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

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“But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.”

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“Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.”

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“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

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“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

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“Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.”

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“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”

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“Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.”

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“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”

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“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”

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“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”

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“Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.”

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“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”

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“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.”

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“I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.”

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“She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.”

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“The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.”

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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”

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Cited in Power Quotes: For Life, Business, and Leadership (2018) by Danai Krokou, ISBN 1-63157-750-6
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“Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.”

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