3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

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    You know what I’d really, really like? What I’d pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it.

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    Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon – he’d run them all.

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    No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

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    Demons were like genies or philosophy professors – if you didn’t word things exactly right, they delighted in giving you absolutely accurate and completely misleading answers.

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    Incidentally, it’s best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

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    Most horses don’t walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can’t see doesn’t exist.

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    The best research is the research that you don’t know that you are doing.

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    The Captain of the Watch says if you’re still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

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