... people aren’t just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances. (ISWM)
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‘... maybe it’s wrong to base one’s future on a book of fairy stories.’ (ISWM)
... witches grew old inside. (ISWM)
People are often so busy living that they never stopped to wonder why. (ISWM)
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)
‘... the universe has no time for life. By rights it shouldn’t exist. We don’t realize the odds.’ (DSS)
‘I don’t seem to be achieving anything, but I must keep trying otherwise what is free will for?’ (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)
'... you know that religion that thinks that whirling around in circles is a form of prayer?'
'Oh, yes. The Hurtling Whirlers of Klatch.' 'Mine is like that, only we go more in ... straight lines. Yes. That's it. Speed is a sacrament.' 'You believe it gives you some sort of eternal life?' 'Not eternal, as such. More ... well, just more really. More life.' (LH) Everyone has an unconditional clause in their life, some little unspoken addition to the rules like 'except when I really need to' or 'unless no one is looking' or, indeed, 'unless the first on was nougat.' (TOT)
'You had to live in the world. Otherwise, how could you learn to be human?' (TOT)
It was hard to deal with people when a tiny part of you saw them as a temporary collection of atoms that would not be around in another few decades. (TOT)
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (HFS)
'Things that are back to front are often easier to comprehend if they are upside down as well, said Lord Vetinari, tapping his chin with the silver knob of his can in an absent-minded way. 'In life as in politics.' (TT)
'Life's bad enough as it is without having to worry about invisible things you can't see.' (AM)
'... the world is rather bad and extremely difficult and all you can do is the best you can.' (Do)
... he does the best he can in an imperfect world and calls it the law. (PP)
It has been said that everything everywhere affects everything else. This may be true.
Or perhaps the world is just full of patterns. (Wings) The Munrungs didn't have gods. Life was complicated enough as it was. (CP)
'... it takes a lifetime to learn how to die.' (N)
That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so we don't have to think, because if we think we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be. (N)
'Life is a trick and you get one chance to learn it.' (N)
'I've been living my life for a long time. I know how it works.' (LH)
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