3,122 Quotes by Terry Pratchett

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    It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country’s main export. It had rain mines.

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    He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‘All the Gods are bastards.’

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    Don’t stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

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    It was so loud and so deep, it wasn’t really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

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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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    Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn’t realized that it could make you stupid.

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    You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn’t, he sent men to come and take it away.

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    Bishops move diagonally. That’s why they often turn up where the kings don’t expect them to be.

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    The world is a globe – the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

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