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Chances are where you find them

Chances are where you find them

Terry Pratchett
Chance, Chances Are

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Terry Pratchett
Knowing, People, Knows
Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.103, Random House

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Terry Pratchett
Mind, Paper, Discworld
"Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 114), 1992.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Hands, Vetinari

In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.

Terry Pratchett
Missing, Defiance, Belle

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Terry Pratchett
Nineteen, Four, Language

Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.

Terry Pratchett
Drunk, Funeral, Gone

It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

Terry Pratchett
Moon, Piano, Yellow
"Sourcery (Discworld, Book 5)". Book by Terry Pratchett, May 26, 1988.

People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

Terry Pratchett
Names, People, Legs

My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

Terry Pratchett
Names, Said, Rincewind
Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.7, Harper Collins

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Needs, Sometimes
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.183, Random House

Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

Terry Pratchett
Cutting, Talking, Shoes

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Terry Pratchett
People, Rodents, Stories
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.1, Random House

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

Terry Pratchett
Life, Mean, Want
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Terry Pratchett
Intelligent, Views, People
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.212, Random House

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Terry Pratchett
Imagination, Looks, Said

Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

Terry Pratchett
Pie, Meat, Hot

You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

Terry Pratchett
Voice, Captains, Would Be

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett
Kings, Moving, Bishops
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Terry Pratchett
Jobs, Men, Excess
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett
Knives, Murder, Discworld
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

Terry Pratchett
Men, Years, Patents
"Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 307), 1992.

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Terry Pratchett
Stupid, Intelligent, Men

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

Terry Pratchett
Patriotic, Killing, Discworld
"Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 31)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

Terry Pratchett
People, Nannies, Lords And Ladies
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.29, Random House

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