What people mean to do and what is done are two different things
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.
Admittedly he was listening to a Best of Queen tape, but no conclusions should be drawn from this because all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums...
After my wife was killed in that pogrom in Russia, I came to England with only my tools, and when I saw the white cliffs of Dover, alone without my wife, I said, God, today I don’t believe in you anym...
All libraries, everywhere, are connected by the bookworm holes in space created by the strong space-time distortions found around any large collections of books. Only a very few librarians learn the s...
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain.
Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones.
But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed (because of Quantum), it's even more true that it changes the observer.
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.
Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)
Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.Treatle: I...
Do teachers go anywhere special when they die?’ said Cohen. ‘I don’t think so,’ said Mr Saveloy gloomily. He wondered for a moment whether there really was a great Free Period in the sky. It didn’t so...
Don't you understand? snarled Rincewind. We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!Can't we do anything about it?No!Then I can't see the sense in panicking, said Twoflower calmly.
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the g...
Dwarfs are very attached to gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a book to read while the debate goes on.
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED.What kind of philosophy is that?THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS.
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave...
FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT. . . .
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