I'm sure it's all journalism [...] It means it's true enough for now.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: news journalism discworld newspapers



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You know zat another term for an iconographer would be ‘photographer’? From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—”
“‘To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the place,’” said William.
“Ah, you know it!

Terry Pratchett

Tag: discworld photographer



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We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: discworld pyramids



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Several 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 Pratchett

Tag: books literary-criticism library discworld



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Susan stared at him.

The blue glow in Death’s eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond…

…which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: eternity death discworld soul-music



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That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: discworld terry-pratchett vimes



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If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend the other half listening.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: humor discworld puns



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There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact it is considered opinion of some of his tutors that he is incapable even of achieving level zero, which most normal people are born at; to put it another way, it has been suggested that when Rincewind dies the average occult ability of the human race will actually go up by a fraction.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: humor discworld wizards occult



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If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato

Terry Pratchett

Tag: humor discworld



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The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Terry Pratchett

Tag: virtue discworld wickedness granny-weatherwax



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