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

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.

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

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

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

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

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

I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

Terry Pratchett
Life, Home, Ipods
"Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Back Home, Havens
Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2015). “All the Discworld's a Stage”, p.143, Oberon Books

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Waiting Rooms, Long

If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

Terry Pratchett
Uncles, Home, Curves

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Pages, Starting

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Cities, Ankh

You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."

Terry Pratchett
Mother, Children, Home
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

Terry Pratchett
Friday, Home, Evil
Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.294, Random House

Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Eye, Thinking
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.142, Random House

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Home, Thinking

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

Terry Pratchett
Children, Home, Heart

Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.

Terry Pratchett
Country, Home, Eye

Belief was never mentioned at home, but right actions were taught by daily example.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Example, Taught
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist, says fantasy author Terry Pratchett" by Terry Pratchett, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 21, 2008.

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

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

Terry Pratchett
Home, Elderly, Community
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.60, Random House

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.

Terry Pratchett
Husband, War, Home
"Thud!".

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

Terry Pratchett
Nice, Home, Murder Mysteries
Source: bobneilson.org

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