You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.
You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor, said Vimes. And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. N...
You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick.
Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord? said the chair.It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's a --ing virginal, growled Mr. Tulip. One --ing string to a note i...
Your power is only rumour and lies, she thought. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy...
[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
[T]he princesses were beautiful as the day is long and so noble they, they could pee through a dozen mattresses
The whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.
They believed that for a thing to exist it had to have a position in time and space. Humanity had arrived as a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn’t have a position in time and spac...
True freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.
The food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.
Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).
William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.
Hey, let me tell you about the weirdness, like when he was staying with us for the editing, and we heard a noise and went into his room and two of our white doves had got in and couldn't get out; they...
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
Logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.
No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
One day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree, and even as I wat...
Rational thoughts made out of insane components.
The world kept turning and the Turtle moved.
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