Wyruszył zastanawiając się, jak przywołać cebulę.Wprawdzie na straganach zwykle widywał ją w wiankach, ale chyba w wiankach nie rosła. Może chłopi używają szkolonych psów albo śpiewają pieśni, żeby ją wywabić?
Terry PratchettSeveral times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.
Terry PratchettTag: books literary-criticism library discworld
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words.
Terry PratchettTag: words books library gevaisa
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.
Terry PratchettIt’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.
Terry PratchettTag: perception humour brain
A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.
Terry PratchettAristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.
Terry PratchettTag: aristocrats being-wrong aristocracy being-right
If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
Terry PratchettTag: change-the-world girl-power
Mr. False! No, don't start grabbing the chickens! Better off farmer with no chickens than a load of chickens with no farmer! Anyway, they'll probably float, or fly, or something!
Terry PratchettTag: humor improbable chickens funny-humor
[The clerk] held in front of him a scroll with a red wax seal affixed, the kind of thing believed to make a document official - or at least expensive and difficult to understand, which, in fact, amounts to the same thing.
Terry PratchettTag: documentation lawyers official
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