No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpock. Well *technically* they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

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#Fotovorschlag „Stofftier“

Irgendwer muss irgendwann einmal Weihnachten sehr mit Hogfather in Verbindung gebracht haben.

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"Chap with a whip got as far as the big sharp spikes last week," said the low priest.

Life in the Temple of Offler
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway on bsky: 10 copies of #JohnnyAndTheDead, the 2nd #JohnnyMaxwell book, by #TerryPratchett, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3mnibtkhw422f

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Terry Pratchett on students and teachers

(For some reason, the funniest part to me is 'the teacher's eyes narrowed further'. The narrator had not previously said anything about the teacher's eyes. But adding the word 'further' inflects the whole conversation retroactively.)

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You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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"Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?"

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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