‘I don’t seem to be achieving anything, but I must keep trying otherwise what is free will for?’ (DSS)
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‘Humanity is a state of mind, not body.’ (DSS)
Do you not say ‘the world of the common wasp’, or ‘the world of the poet’? They are worlds, and only incidentally include some reference to a physical reality like a planet. (DSS)
‘... I get the horrible feeling that we live in a big ever-repeating circle where we do things because it is predicted that we will do things - all effect and no cause.’ (DSS)
He stifled the urge to look around. Korodore has schooled him unmercifully in assassination drill. Know who was your assassin was small reward for being assassinated. Korodore said, ‘The price of curiosity is a terminal experience.’ (DSS)
‘Just because you’ve got a mind like a, a hammer doesn’t mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail.’ (OYCSM)
It’s amazing how young twelve is, when you’re thirteen. (OYCSM)
Sooner or later you had to talk, even if it was only because you’d run out of things to throw. (OYCSM)
Some people took it personally when they were blown to bits. (OYCSM)
Dreams always started out well and then they went wrong, no matter what you did. You couldn’t trust dreams. (OYCSM)
With humans we have often found it essential to get our self-defence in as soon as possible. (OYCSM)
You get much better graphics in your dreams. (OYCSM)
Basically, there were two sides to the world. There was the entire computer games software industry engaged in a tremendous effort to stamp out piracy, and there was Wobbler. Currently, Wobbler was in front. (OYCSM)
... the stories are out there and it’s up to you to leap on ‘em... (NOC)
... when offered port you should say, ‘Ah, yes, I will have a little port.’ Everyone says this. You have to say it even if what you intend is a lot of port. (NOC)
... witches sit where they like ... (NOC)
Witches are very lucky people to know, especially happy witches. (NOC)
... the art of cuisine is to make something out of nothing and charge a lot of money doing it... (NOC)
... it isn’t cookery books that are needed half so much as cooks who know what they are doing and can make a meal out of anything. (NOC)
... good manners started to happen as soon as all the mammoths were killed off and there was no piece of food big enough for everyone to eat at the same time. (NOC)
... never give a cat a name you would mind shouting out in a strained, worried voice around midnight while banging a tin bowl with a spoon. And stick to something short. (UC)
When we break down, it all breaks down. (NW)
... upper class etiquette in Ankh-Morpork held that, while you could snub your friends any time you felt like it, it was the height of bad form to be impolite to your worst enemy. (NW)
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