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Terry Pratchett

Divers alarums and excursions...

Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.

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Terry Pratchett

It is possible to live well w...

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

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Terry Pratchett

I think that sick people in A...

I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

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Terry Pratchett

I stroll along, talk, I sign ...

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

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Terry Pratchett

And then you bit onto them, a...

And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

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Terry Pratchett

Insofar as he'd formed any op...

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

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Terry Pratchett

Got to be worth a try, I supp...

Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily.

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Terry Pratchett

The singers all loathe the si...

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

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Terry Pratchett

Anyway, just because you're s...

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

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Terry Pratchett

Light died in the west. Night...

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

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Terry Pratchett

I believe in reincarnation,” ...

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

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Terry Pratchett

Young man, the games we play ...

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

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Terry Pratchett

It was said that life was che...

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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Terry Pratchett

Money makes people rich; it i...

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

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Terry Pratchett

You have to start out learnin...

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

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Terry Pratchett

I've never really liked the Y...

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

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Terry Pratchett

Polly felt questing eyes bori...

Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

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Terry Pratchett

I don’t think it's weak to ad...

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

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Terry Pratchett

They were also slightly less ...

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

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Terry Pratchett

That was the very centre of h...

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

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