They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by fir...
There is always a choice. You mean I could choose certain death? A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protes...
There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
The small alien walked past the car. CO2 level up 0.5 percent, it rasped, giving him a meaningful look. You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influe...
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.
The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.
The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the lower classes to move about and not always be available.
That was a ! he said. An evil spirit! The peasants down in the valleys hang up charms against them! But I thought they were just a superstition!No, they're a substition, said Susan. I mean they're rea...
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
Sometimes I dream that we could deal with the big crimes, that we could make a law for countries and not just for people,
Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.
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She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly . Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled...
See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.
Rincewind trudged back up the beach. The trouble is, he said, is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.
Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that lau...
People ought to think for themselves... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to. (Corporal Carrot)