- "What's the human singing about, Thing?" said Masklin.
- "It is a little difficult to follow. However, it appears that the singer wishes it to be known that he did something his way."
- "Did what?"
- "Insufficient data at this point. But whatever it was, he did it at a) each step along life's highway and b) not in a shy way..."

Terry Pratchett, Wings

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A heap of discarded garments by the bed suggested that Verence had mastered the art of hanging up clothes as practised by half the population of the world, and that he had equally had difficulty with the complex topological manoeuvres necessary to turn the socks the right way out.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

Discworld scientists at work
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as
"slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.

Ah, but has it been hedgehogged?
Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

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However, you do *need* rules. Driving on the left (or the right or, in parts of Europe, on the left and the right as the mood takes you) is a rule which works, since following it means you're more likely to reach your intended rather than your final destination.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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"They say there's dwarf mines under the Ramtops," she said inconsequentially. "My, but them little buggers is in for a surprise."

Granny reflects on Esk's methods of lighting a fire.
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FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC.

The motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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