Nanny Ogg changed the way people thought, even if it was only for a few minutes. She left people thinking they were slightly better people. They weren’t, but as Nanny said, it gave them something to live up to. (W)
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Dreams always started out well and then they went wrong, no matter what you did. You couldn’t trust dreams. (OYCSM)
You get much better graphics in your dreams. (OYCSM)
'I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.' (LH)
I wrote that in the days when I thought fantasy was all battles and kings. Now I'm inclined to think that the real concerns of fantasy ought to be about not having battles and doing without kings. (CP)
'Philosophers are always having ideas in the bath ...' (TG)
... you couldn't really imprison someone like Leonard of Quirm. The most you could do was lock up his body. The gods alone knew where his mind went. (J)
The Quirm College for Young Ladies encouraged self-reliance and logical thought. Her parents had sent her there for that reason.
They'd assumed that insulating her from the fluffy edges of the world was the safest thing to do. In the circumstances, this was like not telling people about self-defence so that no-one would ever attack them. (SM) People who say things like 'may all your dreams come true' should try living in one for five minutes. (WFM)
Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was struck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card. (WA)
Magrat would be the first to admit that she had an open mind. I was as open as a field, as open as the sky. No mind could be more open without special surgical implements. And she was always waiting for something to fill it up. (WA)
… dreams that come true are not always the right dreams. (SC)
... the dimension of the imagination is much more complex than those of space and time, which are very junior dimensions indeed ... (COM)
He knew how she felt. It was the way he felt himself, sometimes if he woke in the small hours, at three a.m., a time when the world seemed empty and stripped of comforting illusion. A time when you knew you were a mote, transient and fragile in a vast universe, a candle flame in an empty hall. Luckily the sun always came up, people stirred, and you got on with stuff that distracted you from the reality.
The problem for Roberta Golding was that she was too smart to be distracted. For her, it was three a.m. all the time. (LW) 'It's a harebrained idea, of course, otherwise you wouldn't have had it, would you?' (RS)
‘… onto the world that is people paint the world that they would like.’ (Do)
My job is to make things up, and the best way to make things up is to make them out of real things … (ISWM)
Artists and writers have always had a rather exaggerated idea about what goes on at a witches’ sabbat. This comes from spending too much time in small rooms with the curtains drawn, instead of getting out in the healthy fresh air. (WA)
Nanny Ogg had a pragmatic attitude to the truth; she told it if it was convenient and she couldn’t be bothered to make up something more interesting. (LL)
Granny subsided into unaccustomed, trouble silence, and tried to listen to the prologue. The theatre worried her. It
had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her to control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better. (WS) ... Spike could move like a snake trying to sashay, and the severe, tight and ostensibly modest dresses she wore left everything to the imagination, which is much more inflammatory than leaving nothing. Speculation is always more interesting than facts. (MM)
It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don’t normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along. (P)
Detritus has all the qualities of a good policemen: a loud voice, a commanding presence, and the ability not to let imagination get in the way of persistence. (PP)
She could see things that were really there*…
*Which is much harder than seeing things that aren’t there. Everyone does that. (TOT) ... the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine. (LF)
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