… as though they were alive and dead at the same time, like Cliff Richard. (BOS)
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‘Generally speaking,’ Lobsang pronounced, ‘reality having little sense of narrative, ancient sites are not heavy with swinging blades that decapitate, or rock panels that fold back to fire darts. It’s rather a shame isn’t it?’ (LE)
… everybody has to work, everybody needs to eat, everybody has to live. (Do)
… Dodger hadn’t had a day’s proper schooling. Instead, his life had mostly been spent learning things, which is surprisingly rather different … (Do)
‘Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.’ (Sn)
His job was to make sense of the world, and there were times when he wished that the world would meet him halfway. (Sn)
And it was all about survival, and survival was all about pride. You didn’t have much control over your life, but by Jimmy you could keep it clean and show the world you were poor but respectable. (Sn)
… one day all of us will die but – a this is the important thing – we are not dead yet. (ISWM)
'… the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.' (ISWM)
Roland has succeeded in banishing the dreadful aunts, the Baron's sisters who, frankly, even the old Baron thought were as nasty a pair of old ferrets as any man should find down the trousers of his life. (ISWM)
'… we are part of the scheme of things. Light and dark. Night and day. Sweet and sour. Good and evil (within acceptable college statutes). It just helps if we can have sensible and reliable people on both side …' (UA)
'And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.' (UA)
'… you have to grab life or drop back into the crab bucket.' (UA)
Life gets really complicated if you think too much. (N)
... the perfect world is a journey, not a place. (N)
Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details …. (N)
Daphne had heard that when you drown your whole life passes in front of your eyes.
In fact it's when you don't drown that this happens, as life races back from the start to get to the last known living moment. Mostly it's a blur, but every life has its important moments which get more and more colourful the longer they are remembered. (N) 'The thing about witchcraft,’ said Mistress Weatherwax, ‘is that it’s not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin’ out how you passed it. It’s a bit like life in that respect.' (WFM)
'We live and learn. I always thought that was the best time,’ said Brocando. (CP)
Simony snorted. ‘Well, well,’ he said, ‘we live and learn, just like you said.’
‘Some of us even do it the other way around,’ said Didactylos. (SG) 'Commander Vimes says, when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, just keep pulling until you find the meatball.' (MM)
'It’ll end in trouble, my lord,’ said Ridcully. He’d found it a good general comment in practically any debate. Besides, it was so often true.
Lord Vetinari sighed. ‘In my experience, practically everything does,’ he said. ‘That is the nature of things. All we can do is sing as we go.' (TT) ... they say travelin broadens the mind, I reckon I could pull mine out my ears now and knot it under my chin ... (WA)
'When in doubt, choose to live.' (TOT)
'"Live and let live”, you know that’s always been my motto. Well, “let me live”, really, but that’s almost the same thing.' (SODW)
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