'... when you look at the state of mankind you are forced to accept the reality of the gods.' (LH)
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'You're just a coward really, aren't you?'
'Yes, but I've never understood what's wrong with the idea. It takes guts to run away, you know. Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.' (LH) ... the problem with bandaging an orangutan's head is knowing when to stop. (LH)
Born leaders didn't like being led. (LH)
It wasn't that the prospect of the end of the world was concentrating minds unduly, because that is a general and universal danger that people find hard to imagine. But the Patrician was being rather sharp with people, and that is a specific and highly personal danger and people had no problem relating to it at all. (LH)
'I've been living my life for a long time. I know how it works.' (LH)
... men who can invent things anyone could have thought of are very rare men. (LH)
Their eyes said that wherever it was, they had been there. Whatever it was, they had done it, sometimes more than once. But they would never, ever, buy the T-shirt. And they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people. (LH)
'You have nothing to fear but fear itself.'
'Oh, is that so? What help is that? You think that makes it better? Well, let me tell you, some of that fear can be pretty big and nasty -' (SD) 'We don't need a machine for being confused. We're entirely capable of confusin' ourselves. It is a human achievement, confusion ....' (SD)
'Well, sir, as you know,*'
* A phrase meaning 'I'm not sure you know this.' (SD) The Librarian was informally banned from the High Energy Magic building, owing to his inherent tendency to check on what things were by tasting them. This worked very well in the Library, where taste had become a precision reference system, but was less useful in a room occasionally contains bus bars throbbing with several thousand thaums. The ban was informal, of course, because anyone capable of pulling the doorknob right through an oak door can obviously go where he likes. (SD)
The Librarian thought that practically everything could be improved by the addition of soft fruit, but apart from that he was a kindly soul, always ready with a helping hand and a banana. (SD)
... Progress was what you made of it. (SD)
As a general rule, he avoided getting to know the students, since he felt they were a tedious interruption to the proper running of college life. (SD)
... many people will put into their mouth something in a foreign language that they wouldn't even feed to a dog in their native tongue. (NOC)
... to my mind things are only suggestive if you're open to suggestion. (NOC)
Sometimes I reckon it would be better if there was a Fountain of Growing Up. (NOC)
... most human food with the possible exception of the custard pie has never been designed for offensive purposes. (NOC)
... the intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. (J)
'Legends are prone to inflation.' (J)
One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man who has, for some reason, to disguise himself as a woman will apparently become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men with. As the ancient scrolls say, hilarious results. (J)
'... Carrot takes an interest. He doesn't even think about it. He makes space in his head for people. He takes an interest, and so people think they're interesting. They feel .... better when he's around.' (J)
'I love the idea of giving in without a fight. I've fought for ten years and giving in without a fight is what I've always wanted to do.' (J)
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