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"Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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"Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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"You're not one of us."
"I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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"You're not one of us."
"I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

Going to a convention is fun!
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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The door was still ajar, but there was a tentative tap on it which said, in a kind of metaphorical morse code, that the tapper could see very well that Carrot was in his room with a scantily clad woman and was trying to knock without actually being heard.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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"*Veni, vici*...Vetinari."

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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"All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is *bastards*."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

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"You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?"

Crowley the demon and Aziraphale the angel in conversation
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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"ER...HO. HO. HO."

Death makes a career move
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presense.'

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I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presense.'

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PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES *DO* PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES *DO* PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Discworld politics explained
Terry Pratchett, Mort

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Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

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