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Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Terry Pratchett
Cat, Rocks, Kitchen

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

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Children, People, Limitless
Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.33, Random House

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

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Interesting, Good Omens, Whole Family

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

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Struggle, Mad, Sanity
"The Light Fantastic". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

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Lying, Together, Littles

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

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People, Purpose, Clown
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.164, Random House

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

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Knowing, People, Magic
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.215, Random House

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

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Eye, Doubt, Rooms

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

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Stupid, Simple, Thinking

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

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Hate, Force, Right Words

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

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Nice, Humanity, Want
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.353, Random House

All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.

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Trying, Shooting, World
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.452, Random House

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

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Book, Purpose, Horror

That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

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Magic, Doe
"Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?

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Cows

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

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Men, Shoes, Coffins
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)”, p.331, Random House

Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

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Firsts, Steps, Every Step

Granny Weatherwaz was a witch. That was quite acceptable in the Ramtops, and no one had a bad word to say about witches. At least, not if he wanted to wake up in the morning the same shape as he went to bed.

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Morning, Bed, Wake Up
Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.21, Harper Collins

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can. People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

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Powerful, Moving, Thinking

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

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People, Trying, Needs

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

Terry Pratchett
Kind, Goddess, Grass
"Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

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War, Once Upon A Time, Wizards

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Back Home, Havens
Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.143, Oberon Books

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

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Song, Folks, Folk Songs
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.79, Random House

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Terry Pratchett
Stupid, Men, People

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