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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and

The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.

Terry Pratchett
Taken, Son, Novices
"Lords And Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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Knowing, One Day, Knows

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

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Mean, Enemy, Doe
"The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

Terry Pratchett
Mean, Mind, Nails

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

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Book, People, Age
"Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

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Discworld, Hermits, Teach
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.

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Real, Talking, Dozen
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

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Girl, Rain, Sound
"Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.

Terry Pratchett
Dirt, Baths, Knows
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.196, Random House

Quit while you're a head, that's what I say.

Terry Pratchett
Quitting
"Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, (p. 49), May 2000.

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

Terry Pratchett
Heart, Scams, Punters

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

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Found You, Long, Return
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.12, Harper Collins

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Terry Pratchett
Fall, Eye, Angel
Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

Terry Pratchett
Eye, Arrows, Mail
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.284, Random House

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

Terry Pratchett
People, Might, Graphic Novels
Source: bobneilson.org

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

Terry Pratchett
Mistress, Village, Witch
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.19, Random House

They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

Terry Pratchett
Thinking, Giving, Hints

Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Hunters, Legs

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

Terry Pratchett
Records, World, Way
Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.12, Harper Collins

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Terry Pratchett
Evil, Grace, Ugly
"Terry Pratchett's books are the opposite of 'ordinary potboilers'" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2015.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Terry Pratchett
Witch, Humans, Ifs

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

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Novel, Austen, Clothings

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

Terry Pratchett
Fighting, Thinking, Want
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

Terry Pratchett
Italian, Kind, Young
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.32, Harper Collins

These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

Terry Pratchett
Cheer, Flower, People

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