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‘It’s very ingenious.’
‘How does it work, then?’ ‘Oh, I didn’t understand what he said. It was all about ... numbers. But it certainly sounded very clever.’ (MR)
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'Everything I have just said is nonsense. It bears no resemblance to the truth of the matter in any way at all. But it is a lie that you can ... understand, I think.' (TOT)
'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)
'I understood every word in that sentence, but not the sentence itself.' (CJ)
Not only was Grimma the best reader among the nomes, she had an amazing ability to understand what she was reading. (Dig)
It's hard to talk to someone who understands ... (N)
'... it's not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.' (GO)'
Looking into Granny's eyes was like looking into a mirror. What you saw looking back at you was yourself and there was no hiding-place. (Ma)
... meddle first, understand later. You had to meddle a bit before you had anything to try to understand. And the thing was never, ever to go back and hide in the Lavatory of Unreason. You have to try to get your mind around the Universe before you give it a twist. (IT)
He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him. (MP)
‘The trouble is, I can explain it in Dog, but you only listen in Human.’ (MP)
… there was no real point in trying to understand anything Twoflower said, and that all anyone could do was run alongside the conversation and hope to jump on as it turned a corner. (LF)
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) His job was to make sense of the world, and there were times when he wished that the world would meet him halfway. (Sn)
'Young lady drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat, if you like that sort of thing. A drunk beggar is as drunk as a lord, and so is a lord. And have you ever noticed that all drunks can understand one another, no matter how drunk they are and how different their native tongues?' (UA)
You didn't get anywhere at Unseen University without being able to understand the vast number of meanings that can be carried by the word ook. (UA)
Learning had to be digested. You didn't just have to know, you have to comprehend. (UA)
'… I don't think it was for reading. It was for having written …' (CCODD)
Life gets really complicated if you think too much. (N)
That's what gods are! An answer that will do! (N)
'Of course I can read it,’ he said. ‘I know what every word means.’
‘Well, then?’ said Masklin. Gurder looked embarrassed. ‘It’s what every sentence means that's giving me trouble,’ he said. (Dig) 'Tell me,’ Ludmilla whispered to Ridcully, ‘is this how wizards usually behave?’
‘The Senior Wrangler is an amazingly fine example,’said Ridcully. ‘Got the same urgent grasp of reality as a cardboard cut-out. Proud to have him on the team.' (RM) 'Flexible? Flexible? My mind’s got so flexible I could pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin!’ snapped Gurder. (Wings)
He'd long ago decided that if you spent all your time listening to what people actually said, you’d never have time to work out what they meant. (Dig)
... if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn’t understand you it’s someone who understands you perfectly, before you’ve had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood. (Dig)
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