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It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up

It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

Terry Pratchett
Rpgs, Effort, Magic

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

Terry Pratchett
Inspiration, Light, Dna

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Terry Pratchett
Atheist, Order, Listening

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Terry Pratchett
Cutting, Thinking, Brain
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.124, Random House

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

Terry Pratchett
Assassins, Priests, Metals
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.38, Harper Collins

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

Terry Pratchett
Sadness, Battle, Sad Music

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Terry Pratchett
Magic, Doe, Lasts

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Reading, People
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.234, Random House

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

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Government, People, Problem

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Opposites, Two
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.208, Random House

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Mad, Said

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

Terry Pratchett
Kings, Battle, Theory

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

Terry Pratchett
People, Darkness, Grants
"Terry Pratchett on his latest novel, his medical diagnosis, and more". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2012.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

Terry Pratchett
Voice, Speak, Can Do

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

Terry Pratchett
Feel Better, Sauce, Taught

Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

Terry Pratchett
People, Looks, Problem

...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

Terry Pratchett
Hair, Monk, Said
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.60, Random House

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Pages, Starting

Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

Terry Pratchett
Nurse, Tea, Dying
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Terry Pratchett
Witty, People, Ironic
"Maskerade". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

Terry Pratchett
Fighting, Thinking, Rodents
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.272, Random House

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Terry Pratchett
Dream, Men, Weak Man

You have reached the end of cake

Terry Pratchett
Cake, Ends, Sam Vimes
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Terry Pratchett
Singing, Flags, Anthem

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

Terry Pratchett
Brave, Noble, Spirit

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