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Mar 12, 2015 · 4. “I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”. In conversation at the Guardian. 5. “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”. Guards! Guards! 6. The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”.
Here are 27 quotes that show him at his best. “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”. ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time.
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1. “It’s vital to remember who you really are. It’s very important. It isn’t a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.” (Sourcery) 2. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” (I Shall Wear Midnight) 3. “If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone...
6. “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” (Small Gods) 7. “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” (Moving Pictures) 8. “Coffee is a way of stealing time that s...
9. “His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools—the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans—and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.’” (Small Gods) 10. “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is t...
13. “God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rule...
20. “Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.” (A Hat Full of Sky)
21. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” (A Hat Full of Sky) 22. “There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. ...
26. “A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.” (The Fifth Elephant) 27. “And what would humans be without love?” RARE, said Death.” (Sourcery)
28. “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.” (The Last Continent) 29. “He’d been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.” (Mort) 30. “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” (Going Postal) 31. “Anyway, if you stop t...
33. “All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.” (Good Omens) 34. “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry....
39. “If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.” (Lords and Ladies) 40. “I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?” Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.” (Sourcery) Now that you’ve read some...
- Eleven Years Ago Quotes. “I tied up every portable telephone system in Central London for forty-five minutes at lunchtime,” he said. There was silence, except for the distant swishing of cars.
- Wednesday Quotes. “I’ll call him Dog,” said his master, positively. “It saves a lot of trouble, a name like that.” The hell-hound paused. Deep in its diabolical canine brain it knew that something was wrong, but it was nothing if not obedient and its great sudden love of its master overcame all misgivings.
- Thursday Quotes. This wasn’t, insofar as the hell-hound had any expectations, what he had imagined life would be like in the last days before Armageddon, but despite himself, he was beginning to enjoy it.
- Friday Quotes. “I thought the churches...” Newt began. “Pah!” said Shadwell. [...] “Churches? What good did they ever do? They’m just as bad. Same line o’ business, nearly.
Mar 12, 2015 · RIP Terry Pratchett: 11 of his most moving quotes about life and death. On 12 March 2015 the literary world lost one of its greats. As the world mourns the creator of Discworld, Terry Pratchett ...
Jul 6, 2019 · Good Omens, the shared handiwork of Neil Gaiman and the late Sir Terry Pratchett, hit unsuspecting bookshelves in 1990. I first stumbled across this cheeky little tome midway through a ravenous binge of Pratchett’s work— Good Omens was dedicated “to the memory of G. K. Chesterton, a man who knew what was going on,” and I was accordingly hooked.
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26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.'. 27 And the Lord did not ask him again.”. ― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. tags: angel, god, heaven, humor. 745 likes.
