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Terry Prachett Quotes

Terry Prachett quotes

English Author, Writer April 28, 1948

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Terry Prachett quote: "I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people..."
I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss..."
The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every..."
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist. Terry Prachett
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 Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be..."
Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE..."
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. Terry Prachett
She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother", everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child"... Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize."
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight..."
All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums. Terry Prachett
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things. Terry Prachett
Elves are wonderful; they provoke wonder. Elves aremarvellous; they cause marvels. Elves are fantastic; they create fantasies. Elves are glamorous; they project glamour. Elves are enchanting; they weave enchantment. Elves sre terrific; they beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad. Terry Prachett
You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. Terry Prachett
Susan's gotta poker, you know," it said, as if anxious to be helpful. WELL, WELL. INDEED. MY GOODNESS ME."I fort-thought all of you knew that now. Larst-last week she picked up a bogey by its nose."Death tried to imagine this. He felt sure he'd heard the sentence wrong, but it didn't sound a whole lot better however he rearranged the words. Terry Prachett
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for. Terry Prachett
But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context, but Mustrum Ridcully was kind enough to enlighten me. Terry Prachett

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