It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a serva...
Genuine anger was one of the world’s great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn’t mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a workin...
What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?
It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.
Genua had once controlled the rivermouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracybecause it was done by the city government, and therefore sound economicsand perfectly all right
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water.
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
The turtle moves.
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.That's what my grandmother used to say, said Brutha automatically.Indeed? I would like to know mor...
Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000...
The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.
(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in...
They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to cho...
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the po...
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