Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

"That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?"
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"That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?"
Terry Pratchett
"There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books."
Terry Pratchett
"All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away."
Terry Pratchett
"There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole place began to revolve around the big man, gold being very dense and having a gravity all of its own."
Terry Pratchett
"Wanna see how creepy I can be"-Mr Teatime"
Terry Pratchett
"(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain."
Terry Pratchett
"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard"
Terry Pratchett
"Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting"
Terry Pratchett
"Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get."
Terry Pratchett
"He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink."
Terry Pratchett
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."
Terry Pratchett Mort
"The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality."
Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards!
"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
Terry Pratchett Jingo
"What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."
Terry Pratchett Small Gods
"Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?"
Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment
"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!"
Terry Pratchett The Color of Magic
"Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle."
Terry Pratchett Small Gods
"“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”"
Terry Pratchett Night Watch
"“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”"
Terry Pratchett Going Postal
"“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”"
Terry Pratchett Mort
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