3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

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    And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

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    Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they’re lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.

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    He’d been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

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

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    After you’ve been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

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    SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it’s wrong.

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    The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort.

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    Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn’t. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

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