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Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.
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London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line.
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And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.
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This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.
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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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The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.
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SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
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People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.
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I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.
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Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.
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Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving
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Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
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History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.
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The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
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Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.
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You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.
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There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.
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The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?
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Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.
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Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.
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Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.
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There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
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You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.
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A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
April 28, 1948
Died:
March 12, 2015
(aged 66)
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Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
Known for:
The Colour of Magic (1983)
The Shepherd's Crown (2015)
The Wee Free Men (2003)
Good Omens (1990)
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