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We live and learn, or, perhap...

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

He said it was better to belo...

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

That's one form of magic, of ...

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

You had to deal every day wit...

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And ...

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

For example, the dwarfs found...

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Apes had it worked out. No ap...

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

If you had enough money, you ...

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Things like crowns had a trou...

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

He was determined to discover...

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Poetic simile was strictly li...

Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Ponder just let it happen. It...

Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Little crimes breed big crime...

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

The theater troubled her. It ...

The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Belief is one of the most pow...

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

The only thing more dangerous...

The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Despite rumor, Death isn't cr...

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

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I don't regret it, you know. ...

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

That's the Ankh-Morpork insti...

That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Witches were a bit like cats....

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....