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Fear generates big profits. — Terry Pratchett

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional. — Terry Pratchett

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-"
"Go for the throat — Terry Pratchett

The sweater was much easier to climb. — Terry Pratchett

It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference. — Terry Pratchett

Galder tried to shout, but his voice refused to come out. — Terry Pratchett

They're fascinated, and fascinated people spend money. — Terry Pratchett

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere. — Terry Pratchett

There is no hope for the future, said Death — Terry Pratchett

- DON'T WORRY, IT WON'T BE FOREVER. - Good. - IT MAY SEEM LIKE FOREVER. — Terry Pratchett

Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies. — Terry Pratchett

She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to. — Terry Pratchett

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. — Terry Pratchett

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war. — Terry Pratchett

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week. — Terry Pratchett

Andrews had probably been some innocent and hospitable person of a psychic disposition who had simply been overwhelmed by the colonizing souls. — Terry Pratchett

We all have our funny little ways. Except me, obviously. — Terry Pratchett

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. — Terry Pratchett

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. — Terry Pratchett

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

Fate can be one mean god at times. — Terry Pratchett

A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows. — Terry Pratchett

For some reason, humans needed things that weren't true. — Terry Pratchett

Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist. — Terry Pratchett

Why did thee call that hell-goat Mephistopheles? asked McTavish one day. — Terry Pratchett

Live in dreams for too long and ye go mad - ye can never wake up prop'ly, ye can never get the hang o' reality again. — Terry Pratchett

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I said. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. — Jim Butcher

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things. — Terry Pratchett

Where there's life, eh?"

WHERE THERE'S LIFE EH WHAT?

"There's hope?"

IS THERE? — Terry Pratchett

Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people. — Terry Pratchett

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night. — Terry Pratchett

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.
-Death — Terry Pratchett

How do they rise up? — Terry Pratchett

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before. — Terry Pratchett

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid. — Terry Pratchett

Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused — Terry Pratchett

That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count. — Terry Pratchett

There was always something that you had to do before you could do the thing you wanted to do and even then you might get it wrong. — Terry Pratchett

There was always something that needed transferring from A to B or, of course, to the bottom of the C.
Any — Terry Pratchett

I can teach you a lesson you won't forget in a hurry — Terry Pratchett

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . . — Terry Pratchett

It's still magic even if you know how it's done. — Terry Pratchett

Oo, you are so sharp you'll cut yourself one of these days — Terry Pratchett

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers. — Terry Pratchett

Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches. — Terry Pratchett

You'll learn there is another rule. Esme's obeyed it all her life." "And what's that?" "When you break rules, break 'em good and hard," said — Terry Pratchett

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone. — Terry Pratchett

You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out. — Terry Pratchett

You made a choice, you get what you choose. — Terry Pratchett

Do my thoughts just dream of me? — Terry Pratchett

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong ... But it might. — Terry Pratchett

Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain ... pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. — Terry Pratchett

swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He — Terry Pratchett

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

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. — Terry Pratchett

The launch of 'Tomb Raider III' was actually my first experience of the games industry. — Rhianna Pratchett

There's some things we can't think because we don't know the words. — Terry Pratchett

But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Winter — Terry Pratchett

And the woman in the vegetable shop, she oppresses me all the time. — Terry Pratchett

Humans need fantasy to be human. — Terry Pratchett

He felt eyes suddenly upon him because marital telepathy is a terrible thing — Terry Pratchett

A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath. — Terry Pratchett

Being a buisance is not something you should die of. — Terry Pratchett

Romancin' is verra important, ye ken. Basically it's a way the boy can get close to the girl wi'oot her attackin' him and scratchin' his eyes oot. — Terry Pratchett

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish. — Terry Pratchett

WHAT THINGS SEEM MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE, — Terry Pratchett

Well, got any relish?" "No, ma'am." "Tomato ketchup?" "No, ma'am." "And they call this a gormay paradise, — Terry Pratchett

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? — Terry Pratchett

In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds. — Terry Pratchett

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. — Terry Pratchett

Nevertheless, the human brain, which survives by hoping from one second to another, will always endeavor to put off the moment of truth. Moist — Terry Pratchett

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. — Terry Pratchett

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. — Terry Pratchett

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice! — Terry Pratchett

Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp — Terry Pratchett

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. — Terry Pratchett

Ach, noo yer talkin' oour language," said Rob Anybody. "Not ... quite," said Tiffany. — Terry Pratchett

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. — Terry Pratchett

And no cheating, Lady." he said.
"But who could cheat Fate?" she asked. He shrugged."No-one. Yet everyone tries. — Terry Pratchett

The turtle moves. — Terry Pratchett

How do you get shadows when there's no sun in the sky? she thought, because it was better to think about things like this than all the other, much — Terry Pratchett

If he could get the idea of paper money past them then he was home and, if not dry, then at least merely Moist. — Terry Pratchett

Nothing wrong with whips and needles, in moderation. — Terry Pratchett

The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it. — Terry Pratchett

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. — Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armor shouting All the Gods are bastards! — Terry Pratchett

No one knows how to do officering, Fred. That's why they're officers. If they knew anything, they'd be sergeants. — Terry Pratchett

He preached as if he had a flaming sword in his hand. Bats fell out of the rafters. The organ started up by itself. The water sloshed in the font. — Terry Pratchett

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. — Terry Pratchett

The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream. — Terry Pratchett

The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room, — Terry Pratchett

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. — Neil Gaiman

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. — Terry Pratchett

Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger. And that which does kill us leaves us dead! — Terry Pratchett

Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha! — Terry Pratchett