Terry Pratchett quotes - page 4

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. (Terry Pratchett)

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

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We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

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If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

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Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

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All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

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No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

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I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

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So much universe, and so little time. (Terry Pratchett)

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

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We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

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The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

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Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

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I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind...

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People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.

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There's no point in believing in things that exist.

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She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. (Terry Pratchett)

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

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Magic never dies. It merely fades away.

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Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

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There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

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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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