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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.

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.

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

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

Terry Pratchett
Rain, Purpose, Arseholes
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.169, Random House

... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

Terry Pratchett
Hunting, Purpose, Slingshots
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)”, p.293, Random House

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Terry Pratchett
People, Purpose, Clown
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.164, Random House

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Terry Pratchett
Book, Purpose, Horror

Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.

Terry Pratchett
Believe, People, Purpose
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.28, Harper Collins

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