'It's hard enough bein' people as it is, without other people coming and messin' you around.' (GO)
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Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice ... (GO)
Crowley liked the city in the early mornings. its population consisted almost entirely of people who had proper jobs to do and real reasons for being there, as opposed to the unnecessary millions who trailed in after 8 a.m. (GO)
'... if you do know Right from Wrong you can't choose Wrong. You just can't do it and live.' (Ma)
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub. (Ma)
She'd long ago been resigned to the fact that people expected a bottle of something funny-coloured and sticky. It wasn't the medicine that did the trick though. It was, in a way, the spoon. (Ma)
.... there is noone like Magrat for getting in the way of her own life. (LL)
'People've got enough to cope with just being people.' (LL)
Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them. (LL)
People remember badly. But societies remember well, the swarm remembers, encoding the information to slip it past the censors of the mind, passing it in from grandmother to grandchild in little bits of nonsense they won't bother to forget. Sometimes the truth keeps itself alive in devious ways despite the best efforts of the official keepers of information. (LL)
'Don't try to be paranormal until you know what's normal.' (LL)
Rincewind was not politically minded but there were some things he could work out not because they were to do with politics but because they had a lot to do with human nature. (IT)
Unseen University was used to eccentricity among the faculty. After all, humans derive the notions of what it means to be a normal human being by constant reference to the humans around them, and when those humans are other wizards the spiral can only wiggle downwards. (SM)
It is a strange but reliable fact that whenever men throw off the yoke of tyrants and set out to rule themselves there emerges, like mushrooms after rain, Mr Clete.
Hat. Hat. Hat. Mr Clete laughed at things in inverse proportion to the actual humour of the situation. (SM) ... she was brilliant in the same way that a diamond is brilliant, all edges and chilliness. (SM)
‘Cats know about people. We have to. No-one else can open cupboards.’ (AM)
Dogs were brighter than wolves. Wolves didn't need intelligence. They had other things. But dogs ... they'd been given intelligence by humans. Whether they wanted it or not. They were certainly more vicious than wolves. They'd got that from humans too. (MA)
… he was the sort of person who always took laughter personally. (MA)
‘Being alone isn’t the same as not having other people around,’ said Granny (LL)
‘Everything happens because things have happened before. Stupid.’ (SG)
The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. (WA)
Magrat bought occult jewellery as a sort of distraction from being Magrat. She had three large boxes of the stuff and was still exactly the same person. (WA)
Fairy godmothers develop a very deep understanding about human nature, which makes the good ones kind and the bad ones powerful. (WA)
‘I didn’t grow up despising mankind. I had to learn it.’ (LM)
‘Stupidity is a universal, it seems.’ (LM)
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