Terry Pratchett Short Quotes

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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

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I don't believe. I never have, not in big beards in the sky.

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Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

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He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

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When you look into the abyss, it's not supposed to wave back.

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Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

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If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

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This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

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Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

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Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

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Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot.

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Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

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Up until now I'd always thought RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.

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See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

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Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

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Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything…

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Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

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What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

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Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

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Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

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Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

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"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".

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Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

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IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather.
THEY'RE NOT
MEANT
TO BE SAFE.

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Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

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