Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.
First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin’ out how you passed it.
Gods? said Xeno. We don’t bother with gods. Huh. Relics of an outmoded belief system, gods.There was a rumble of thunder from the clear evening sky.Except for Blind Io the Thunder God, Xeno went on, h...
Good and bad is tricky, she said. I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.
Got to be worth a try, I suppose, said Crowley. It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows.His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly....
Granny sighed. You have learned something, she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad...
HO. HO. HO.
He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being real...
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciat...
He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that,...
He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.
He’d forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed.
Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke.
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened,...
History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just … well, things happening one after another.
I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee.
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs Gogol.That's good, said Granny. I don't want you to hurt me either.
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