Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: discworld



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A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: perception observational cultural-biases



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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Terry Pratchett


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Everywhere I look, I see something holy.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: holy



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I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: women-inspirational-age



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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: reading read bookshop bookstore discworld



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Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: religion destiny



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...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: stories heroes narrative-causality



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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: libraries time librarians space



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If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: humor life cats



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