3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett


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    He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.

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    Just because you’ve got a mind like a hammer doesn’t mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail.

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    And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man’s got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That’s oppression, that is. If I’m not under the heel of the oppressor, I don’t know who is.

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    Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien’s attic.

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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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    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.

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