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Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

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Eye
Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.47, Random House

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

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Waiting, Coal, Diamond

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

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Fun, Sea, Joy

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

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Thunderstorm, Shouting, Copper

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.

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Ifs

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

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Praying, Trouble, Discworld
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.20, Random House

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

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Traffic, Lanes, Fast Lane
Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.36, Random House

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

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Numbers, Mobster, Members

The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

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Ideas, Giving, Interesting
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Thinking, People

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

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Mean, Carpe Diem, Throat
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.83, Random House

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

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Escaping, Important, Where You Are

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

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People, Use, Limits
Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.40, Random House

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

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Thinking, Firsts, Filled

Everything is a test.

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Tests
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.72, Random House

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

Terry Pratchett
People, Done, Way
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)”, p.41, Random House

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

Terry Pratchett
Funny, Travel, Home
"The Ghost Girl and the Naked Savage" by James Hynes, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.

Ingenuity and incongruity always cheer me up.

Terry Pratchett
Cheer, Cheer Me Up, Ingenuity
Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

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Travel, Adventure, Sleep

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

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Law, Hygiene, Brain

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Terry Pratchett
Names

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett
Prayer, Fate, Evil
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

Terry Pratchett
Hands, Stuck Up, Abstract

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Terry Pratchett
Sex, Fun, Writing

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett
Fake People, Lying, Humor
Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.29, Random House

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