Terry Pratchett quotes - page 3

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). (Terry Pratchett)

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.

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They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker...

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Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

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I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

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When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

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Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

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Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake.

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Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

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[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. (Terry Pratchett)

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

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No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

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Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

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There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. (Terry Pratchett)

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

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

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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

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She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

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Terry Pratchett

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Photo: Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0

Occupation: English Author
Born: April 28, 1948
Died: March 12, 2015
Quotes count: 941
Wikipedia: Terry Pratchett

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