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The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything,

The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.

Terry Pratchett
Winning, Keys, Rights
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

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Cancer, Alzheimer's, Differences

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

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Fun, Bother, Ifs

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Terry Pratchett
Song, Father, Singing

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

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Home, Waiting Rooms, Long

Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.

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Doors, Two, Giving

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it.

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Mother, Thinking, Government
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.138, Random House

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

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Clothes, Ties, Mad

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

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Three, Hedgehogs, Six
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.74, Random House

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

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Letters, Alphabet, Facts
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.84, Random House

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

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People, Half, Fantasy
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.129, Random House

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

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Names, Luck, Mind
Terry Pratchett (2014). “Interesting Times: Adapted for the Stage by Stephen Briggs”, p.23, A&C Black

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

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Technology, Magic, Done
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.308, Random House

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 thinking.

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Peace, Military, War

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

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Thinking, Religion, Insane

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

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Lying, Officers
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs (2004). “Monstrous Regiment”, Methuen Drama

Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

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Book, Mean, Hands

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Writing, Interesting

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.

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Ice Cream, Law, Hot
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.161, Random House

I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

Terry Pratchett
Littles, Kingdoms, Tiny

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

Terry Pratchett
Macro, Pens

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

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Soccer, Sports, Football

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

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Boys, Advice, Revolution
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Terry Pratchett
Past, Understanding, Erratic

I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.

Terry Pratchett
Mph, Wyoming, Police

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