3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

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    Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

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    You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

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    Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

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    Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.

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    Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

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    People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

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    Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

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    Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

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