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Terry Prachett Quotes

Terry Prachett quotes

English Author, Writer April 28, 1948

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No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries of illusory words. Spotter's guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other libraries, everywhere and everywhen... Terry Prachett
If you thought hard enough, he’d always considered, you could work out everything. The wind, for example. It had always puzzled him until the day he’d realized that it was caused by all the trees waving about. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS..."
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. Terry Prachett
It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying. Terry Prachett
I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment. Terry Prachett
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice. Terry Prachett
Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now. Terry Prachett
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 Prachett
The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovorcoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where..."
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. Terry Prachett
Bees buzzed in the bean blossoms. And the sun beat down on the upturned shell of Om. There is also a hell for tortoises. He was too tired to waggle his That was all you could do, waggle your legs. And stick your head out as far as it would go and wave it about in the hope that you could lever yourself over. Terry Prachett
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. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard...."
Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on..."
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it. Terry Prachett
And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of. Terry Prachett

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