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Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

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Dream, Apples, Brain
"Maskerade".

No real sunrise could paint the sky Surgical Appliance Pink.

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Real, Sky, Sunrise
"Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

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Easy, Harder

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

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Men, Genius, Originality
Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

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Black And White, America, Racism
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.212, Random House

One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'

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Sex, Thinking, Next

There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

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Believe, Gun, Land

There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom, there's light for nothing but mosses and ferns. But when a giant falls, leaving a little space ... then there's a race - between the trees on either side, who want to spread out, and the seedlings below, who race to grow up. Sometimes, you can make your own space.

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Growing Up, Fall, Sky

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

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Reading, Knitting, Romance

He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.

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Sex, Food, Book

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

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Magic, Wizards, World
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

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Snakes, Oil, Medicine

"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

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Sorry, Healing, Anathema
"Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

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Girl, Two, Feet
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.36, Random House

Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.

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Fire, Curves, Cities

Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.

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Husband, War, Home
"Thud!".

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

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Growing Up, Book, Animal

History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it

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Thinking, People, Habit
Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.34, Harper Collins

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.

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Thinking, Wind, Interesting

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

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Death, Magic, Lasts

He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

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Spring, Rivers, Water
Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

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Kings, Speech, Kind
"The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

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Real, Thinking, People

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

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War, Long, History

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

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Motivational, Smart, Boys

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