Miss Treason! Remember you have an appointment!"
It wasn’t the best thing to say, but a lot better than: "You said you were going to die in about five minutes’ time!

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I want to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place.

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After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

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Mots clés equality justice law privilege crime rights

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Have - have you got an appointment?' he said.
'I don't know,' said Carrot. 'Have we got an appointment?'
'I've got an iron ball with spikes on,' Nobby volunteered.
'That's a morningstar, Nobby.'
'Is it?'
'Yes,' said Carrot. 'An appointment is an engagement to see someone, while a morningstar is a large lump of metal used for viciously crushing skulls. It is important not to confuse the two, isn't it, Mr-?' He raised his eyebrows.
'Boffo, sir. But-'
'So if you could perhaps run along and tell Dr Whiteface we're here with an iron ball with spi- What am I saying? I mean, without an appointment to see him? Please? Thank you.

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Mots clés discworld pratchett carrot terry-pratchett men-at-arms carrot-ironfoundersson corporal-carrot

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I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

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Mots clés writing plans unknown

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There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

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Mots clés world stories story change-the-world sunrise

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This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

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Mots clés fantasy-books comical fantasy-fiction jared-wheat

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Mr Tulip raised a trembling hand. 'Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?' he said.

NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.

'Which bit?'

THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOUR BEING BORN AND YOUR DYING.

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He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

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Mots clés humor drinking alchol

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Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.

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