Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,
The proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physi...
Blessings be on this house, Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.
The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.
Talent just defines what you do, he said. It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.
I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say ever...
THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.
Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.
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...
The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and in...
I let you sleep, Sam, said Lady Sybil. You didn't get in this morning until after three.Everyone's double-shifting, dear, said Sam, daring Carrot and Sally to even think about telling anyone they'd se...
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else's.
No point in imagining anything, said Granny. Things are bad enough as they are.
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.
Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane i...
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