Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett
‘We spent nine years training to be pioneers. We should have just downloaded a barn-dancing application.’ (LU)
Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate. (LU)
‘You are smart enough to be extremely good, but not impossibly good. Even a very observant and highly sceptical witness can go away from the show believing he has seen through your tricks, and feeling pleasantly self-satisfied as a result, while understanding nothing of the reality of your abilities.’ (LU)
‘The difference is, sir, we are British.’ (LU)
Windsor Castle seemed to Luis from without an intimidating pile, an excrescence of centuries of wealth heaped upon a core of medieval brutality. (LU)
‘You could have helped.’
I’m helping by not helping.’
‘You’re the one with experience of these creatures.’
Children, Lobsang. They’re called children.’ (LU)
… good people always hesitate. Stupid, stupid. (LU)
‘If Darwin were here I’d demand to know what theory of “natural selection” can possibly have produced something as ugly and useless as an oyster.’ (LU)
‘We spent nine years training to be pioneers. We should have just downloaded a barn-dancing application.’ (LU)
Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate. (LU)
‘You are smart enough to be extremely good, but not impossibly good. Even a very observant and highly sceptical witness can go away from the show believing he has seen through your tricks, and feeling pleasantly self-satisfied as a result, while understanding nothing of the reality of your abilities.’ (LU)
‘The difference is, sir, we are British.’ (LU)
Windsor Castle seemed to Luis from without an intimidating pile, an excrescence of centuries of wealth heaped upon a core of medieval brutality. (LU)
‘You could have helped.’
I’m helping by not helping.’
‘You’re the one with experience of these creatures.’
Children, Lobsang. They’re called children.’ (LU)
… good people always hesitate. Stupid, stupid. (LU)
‘If Darwin were here I’d demand to know what theory of “natural selection” can possibly have produced something as ugly and useless as an oyster.’ (LU)
