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And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

Terry Pratchett
Wicked, Stories, Witch

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!

Terry Pratchett
Hate, Ems, Students

Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock

Terry Pratchett
Jocks, Bigger, Mediums

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

Terry Pratchett
Eye, People, Dying
"The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

Terry Pratchett
Trust, Pyramids, Smirk
"Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 171), January 2008.

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

Terry Pratchett
Interesting, Ponies, Want

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

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Doe, Harvest, Reaper

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

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Running, Islands, People
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.150, Random House

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Terry Pratchett
Not Sure, Sane, Turnips
Terry Pratchett (2007). “Making Money”, Harper

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

Terry Pratchett
World, Bricks, Patient
Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.10, Random House

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Terry Pratchett
Dream, Memories, Loss
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.360, Random House

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

Terry Pratchett
Country, Teacher, Teaching

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

Terry Pratchett
Midnight

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

Terry Pratchett
Magic, Doe, Captains

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

Terry Pratchett
Dream, Wish, Becoming
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

Terry Pratchett
Cat, Movement, Discworld
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

Terry Pratchett
Circles, Enemy, Moved On

Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

Terry Pratchett
Baby, Children, Thinking

They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time.

Terry Pratchett
Differences, People, Needs

I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?"

Terry Pratchett
Taken, Reality, Skills
"Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.

Terry Pratchett
Reading, Book, Talking

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

Terry Pratchett
Party, Lovely, Wish
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.380, Random House

It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

Terry Pratchett
Hands, Long, Mad
"Soul Music". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

Terry Pratchett
Discworld, Small Gods, Chosen One
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.14, Random House

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Crowns, Half

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