A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a dr...
The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.
Science is not interested in what stands to reason.
Just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time.
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there wh...
It's not lying when you do it to officers!
The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.
I’ve never had occasion to use one magnificent tip from a well-known author, but I pass it on anyway: Keep an eye on the trade press. When an editor moves on, immediately send your precious MS to his...
Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal.Isn't that man your butler? said Ahmed.Yes.One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off.Vimes shrugged...
Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.
Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. pommes frites
The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous h...
It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin during the centuries of witch-hunting, twenty-nine thousand said ouch, nine thousand, nine hundred and...
Look down, your grace, said Skimmer. Mhm, mhm.Vimes realized he could feel the faintest prick of a knife blade on his stomach. Look down further, he said.Inigo looked down. He swallowed. Vimes had a k...
Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.
Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.
Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of s...
And, er, these stories about you...Oh, all true. Most of them. A bit of exaggeration, but mostly true.The one about the Citadel in Muntab and the Pash and the fish bone?Oh, yes.But how did you get in...
You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I will deal with this.You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.
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