A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
Terry PratchettTags: reading read bookshop bookstore discworld
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?
Terry PratchettTags: humor humour teaching discworld
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry PratchettTags: adventure change travel growth discworld
Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
Terry PratchettTags: discworld
We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind."
"Oh, no! You think so?"
"Yes."
"But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time."
"Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."
Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror.
"Gosh," he said.
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It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like "my kind of town" and "I wanna be a part of it" in it; the kind of song where people dance in the street and give the singer apples and join in and a dozen lowly matchgirls suddenly show amazing choreographical ability and everyone acts like cheery lovable citizens instead of the murderous, evil-minded, self-centered people they suspect themselves to be. But the point was that if Carrot had erupted into a song, people WOULD have joined in. Carrot could have jollied up a circle of standing stones to form up behind him and do a rumba.
Terry PratchettTags: song-lyrics discworld stereotypes
Silverfish looked down.
"Oh. Are you a dwarf?"
Cuddy gave him a blank stare.
"Are you a giant?" He said.
"Me? Of course not!"
"Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.
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Cake is not the issue here.
Terry PratchettTags: discworld
Ринсуинд е стахливец. Много е доволен от това. Предпочита хората да си приказват какъв страхливец е Ринсуинд, отколкото да признават, че е бил невероятно храбър, чак до мига, когато нещо го е прехапало на две половинки. През продължителната си кариера е присъствал на сътворението на Вселената, пътувал е из ада, сериозно е досадил на Смърт, падал е от Диска, победил е най- могъщия магьосник на света с помощта на половин тухла, пъхната в чорап и се е справил с мнжество чудовища, някои от които в човешки облик. Във всяка от изброените случки отначало е имал намерението да направи нещо съвсем различно от крайния резултат. Из 'Албумът на Тери Пратчет
Terry PratchettAnkh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.
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