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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.

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

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

Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.

Terry Pratchett
Stars, Lying, Stupid

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Fancy, Desert
Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Men, Truth Is
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, en.wikiquote.org. 1992.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Together, Littles

at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things. Outside the boundaries of the universe lie the raw realities, the could-have-beens, the might-bes, the never-weres, the wild ideas, all being created and uncreated chaotically like elements in fermenting supernovas. Just occasionally where the walls of the worlds have worn a bit thin, they can leak in.

Terry Pratchett
Wall, Lying, Reality

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Officers
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs (2004). “Monstrous Regiment”, Methuen Drama

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, People, Floating
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.116, Random House

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

Terry Pratchett
War, Lying, Book

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Book, Reality
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.214, Random House

There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Mind, Facts

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Believe, Justice
"Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

Terry Pratchett
Lying, Eye, Ideas

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

Terry Pratchett
Lying

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