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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Terry Pratchett
Funny, Running, Rocks
"Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Organization, People
"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Terry Pratchett
Running, Baby, Getting Older
Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.183, Random House

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Hurt, Betrayal

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Army, Class
Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.148, Random House

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

Terry Pratchett
Running, Looks, Why Not
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.225, Random House

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Thinking, Racist
Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Successful, Years

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Terry Pratchett
Running, May, Destination

Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Terry Pratchett
Girl, Running, Dog

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Feet, Ancient
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.154, Random House

Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

Terry Pratchett
Running, School, Triangles

First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Book, Cutting

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Animal, Rocks

That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.

Terry Pratchett
Running, People, Interesting
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.125, Random House

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Doors, People
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.84, Random House

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Islands, People
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.150, Random House

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Cutting, Long
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.41, Random House

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

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Looks, World
FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Jun 03, 2015

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Real, People

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Body, Saws

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Horse, People
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.365, Random House

I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

Terry Pratchett
Running, Writing, Easy
Source: boingboing.net

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