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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What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel?

Everything Sir Terry Pratchett [RIP💚]
wrote is underappreciated.
Honestly dear people instead of buying books for children of a Wizard Child written by a woman who turns out is delusional, evil & uses her money to push right politics, fuck up the lives of minorities because of her obsession about strangers genitals.
Who also promotes deadly stereotypes for woman & man, racist stereotypes about Jews & others because everyone knows Harry Potter, buy the kids a book from the assortment of Sir Terry Pratchett.
Not only did he wrote way more than the bully bitch with more variety but instead of promoting stereotypes he elaborates on people's behavior with charm & wit.

"But Hogwarts is so phantastic."

Wait til you see the Discworld a whole world on the Back of four elephants on the back of a giant space roaming turtle.
Upside down mountains & 4 brained sheep.

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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.
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC.

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

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“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

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"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad."

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

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‘“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”’
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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