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Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Games, Play

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.

Terry Pratchett
Good Life, Believe, Doe

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Terry Pratchett
Talking, Glasses, People
Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.16, Random House

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

Terry Pratchett
Remember, Used, Said
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.221, Random House

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

Terry Pratchett
Thinking, Mountain, Want

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

Terry Pratchett
Unhappy, Way, Painful

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Believe, Justice
"Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.

Terry Pratchett
Humble, Men, Thinking
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.242, Random House

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Terry Pratchett
Knowing, Annoying, One Thing
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.102, Random House

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Terry Pratchett
Eggs, Justice, Boiled Eggs

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

Terry Pratchett
People, Reason, Dare
"Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal" by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

Terry Pratchett
Magic, Way, Knows
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.175, Random House

When you stand between two mirrors you're spread out among the images, your whole soul is pulled out thin, and somewhere in the distant images a dark part of you might get out and come looking for you, if you aren't careful.

Terry Pratchett
Dark, Two, Mirrors

There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

Terry Pratchett
Treasure, Opponents, Triumph

I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

Terry Pratchett
Thinking, People, Sick

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Terry Pratchett
Reading, Bankers, Lines

I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

Terry Pratchett
Circles, Apples, Microsoft

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

Terry Pratchett
Heaven, Dumb, Sake

Up until now I'd always though RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.

Terry Pratchett
Jobs, Hate, I Hate

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Terry Pratchett
Long, Looks, Scum

Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Dark, Men

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

Terry Pratchett
Sorry, One Day

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Fall, People

It's a god-eat-god world.

Terry Pratchett
World
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

Terry Pratchett
Spring, Fall, Rocks
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.160, Random House

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