PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES *DO* PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Azhural raised his staff. "It's fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork," he said. "We've got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon's about to break and we're wearing... we're wearing... sort of things, like glass, only dark... dark glass things on our eyes..."

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* TURN UP ONLY ONCE.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow *cool*. Agnes thought that rules like "Don't fall into this huge pit of spikes" were there for a purpose.

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

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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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That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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I've just finished a reread of Jingo by Terry Pratchett

First of all this is one instance where I enjoyed the new audio edition.

But most of all I'm so sorry we don't have Vimes to come and arrest the leaders of this war and Vetinarri to bamboozle everyone into a diplomatic solution.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6e230660-0fb7-454f-a7b3-199ad0d4044f

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I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, said the tall biker in the helmet, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM.

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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- "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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