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Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

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Funny, Stupid, Animal
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

When in doubt, choose to live.

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Doubt, When In Doubt
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)”, p.145, Random House

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

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Wise, Men, Feet

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

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Funny Inspirational, Opposites, People
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.177, Random House

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

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People, Normal, Enough
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.206, Random House

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

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Hero, Purpose, Saws
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Interesting Times: (Discworld Novel 17)”, p.139, Random House

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

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Animal, Average, Together
Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

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Home, Armageddon, Good Omens
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.8, Harper Collins

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

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Soldier, Shooting, Want

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

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Life, Powerful, Fantasy Stories
"Terry Pratchett Toast" by Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com.

Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven.

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Cat, Thinking, Arguing

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

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Fire, Water, Buckets
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.64, Random House

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

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Book, Reading, Dwarves

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

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Country, Rain, Blue

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

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Money, Philosopher, Founders
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

- I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

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Kings, Laughing, Black
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.385, Random House

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

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Tunnels, Light, Black

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

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Writing, Stories, Firsts
Twitter post from Jan 30, 2018

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Important, Remember
Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “The Rince Cycle”, p.84, Oberon Books

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

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Trying, Fruit, Language
Radio Show "Relatively Einstein" ("Fantasy Physics", Episode 3), www.bbc.co.uk. January 18, 2005.

The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

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Senior, Long, Magic
"Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

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Honesty, Humans
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.354, Random House

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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Limits

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

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Soul, Discworld, My Soul
Terry Pratchett (2013). “Going Postal: Stage Adaptation”, p.15, A&C Black

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

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Eye, Whole Life, Dies

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