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You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett
Witty, Knows
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.142, Random House

(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

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Honor, Maids, Ends

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Terry Pratchett
Girl, Running, Home
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.119, Random House

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Looks, World
FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Jun 03, 2015

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

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Drinking, Gowns, Champagne

He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

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Kings, Moving, Simple

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

Terry Pratchett
Mirrors, Littles, Trust Me
Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.78, Random House

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

Terry Pratchett
Noses, Sticks

She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.

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Makeup, Order, White

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.

Terry Pratchett
Fall, Darkness, Kind

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

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Kindness, Hands, Pie
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.106, Random House

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.

Terry Pratchett
Coins, Pairs
"Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

Terry Pratchett
Mind, Males, Female

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

Terry Pratchett
Stupid, Class, People

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Terry Pratchett
Penguins, Made, Has Beens
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.63, Random House

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

Terry Pratchett
Memories, Way, Events
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.165, Random House

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Terry Pratchett
Dragons, Space, Maps

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

Terry Pratchett
Thinking, Government, People
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

Terry Pratchett
Sweet, Brother, Party

But…but you can’t treat religion as a sort of buffet, can you? I mean, you can’t say yes please, I’ll have some of the Celestial Paradise and a helping of the Divine Plan but go easy on the kneeling and none of the Prohibition of Images, they give me wind. Its table d´hôte or nothing, otherwise…well, it would be silly.

Terry Pratchett
Silly, Mean, Wind

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Terry Pratchett
Compassion, Trade, Sharp Edges

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

Terry Pratchett
Live And Learn

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Real, People

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

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Views, People, Losing
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.130, Random House

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

Terry Pratchett
Kings, Men, Masters
Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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