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Terry Prachett Quotes

Terry Prachett quotes

English Author, Writer April 28, 1948

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He had a sword. There was that about him: when this man held a sword, it was clearly being held, and held by him. The eye was drawn to it. Even Jade would have been impressed. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha!..."
That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart. Terry Prachett
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse."Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard! Terry Prachett
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals Terry Prachett
Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book. Terry Prachett
He was trying to conjure up a succubus." It should be impossible to leer when all you've got is a beak, but the parrot managed it. "That's a female demon what comes in the night and makes mad passionate wossn-"I've heard of them," said Rincewind. "Bloody dangerous things."The parrot put its head on one side. "It never worked. All he ever got was a neuralger."What's that?"It's a demon that comes and has a headache at you. Terry Prachett
You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree."One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from? Terry Prachett
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants. Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "What was the point of education, he thought, if people went..."
What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it? Terry Prachett
Terry Prachett quote: "Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at..."
Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. Terry Prachett
You always knew where you stood with Quiezovercoatl. It was generally with a lot of people on top of a great stepped pyramid with someone in an elegant feathered headdress chipping an exquisite obsidian knife for your very own personal use. Terry Prachett
If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast. Terry Prachett
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid. Terry Prachett
It was a shack, somewhere out on the outskirts of the Plains town of Scrote. Scrote had a lot of outskirts, spread so widely-a busted cart here, a dead dog there-that often people went through it without even knowing it was there, and really it only appeared on the maps because cartographers get embarrassed about big empty spaces. Terry Prachett
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armor shouting "All the Gods are bastards! Terry Prachett

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