And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That...
We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things. And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing call...
Good evening, gentlemen!' said the vampire. 'Please pay attention. I am a
He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. The...
If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.
Shut up sergeant. You're a free troll. That's an orderSam Vimes
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord. Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.
Drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat
You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geo...
A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
Do you understand what I'm saying?shouted Moist. You can't just go around killing people!Why Not? You Do. The golem lowered his arm.What? snapped Moist. I do not! Who told you that?I Worked It Out. Yo...
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?‘Yes. Yes, of course.’Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle.
The Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in th...
The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.
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