Some people have inspired whole countries to great deeds because of the power of their vision. And so could he. Not because he dreams about marching hordes, or world domination, or an empire of a thou...
Some people say you achieve immortality through your children, said the minstrel.Yeah? said Cohen. Name one of your great-granddads, then.
Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
That doesn't sound very reliable to me, said the druid nastily. How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count.
That was how it worked. No magic at all. But that time it had been magic. And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
That'll do
That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fume...
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one t...
The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
The Librarian shyly held out a small, battered green book. Vimes had been expecting something bigger, but he took it anyway. It paid to look at any book the orangutan gave you. He matched you up to bo...
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology, quoted Rincewind.Ah, said Eric, Good.No, said Rincewind patiently. It means time measurement.Oh.
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]
The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.
The captain glared at him. The sergeant put on the poker face that has been handed down from NCO to NCO ever since one protoamphibian told another, lower-ranking protoamphibian to muster a squad of ne...
The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she’d found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker.
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military t...
The demon coughed nervously. Demons do not breathe; however, every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. And this was one of them as far as the demo...
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