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“If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'd have written 18 books about Rincewind.”

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“I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.
You shouldn't say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.”

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"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)

“I can't have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.'
'Good,' said Snibril.
'I'll do it myself.”

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The Carpet People (1971; 1992)

“Nerds are the only people who know how to operate the video recorder.”

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“I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.”

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“Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.”

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Terry Pratchett kniha Johnny and the Dead

Johnny and the Dead (1993)

“Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance…”

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Terry Pratchett The Nome Trilogy

Truckers, Ch. 1
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)

“Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").”

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Terry Pratchett kniha The Unadulterated Cat

About giving a cat a pill
The Unadulterated Cat (1989)

“I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.”

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The Carpet People (1971; 1992)

“I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.”

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“As a boy I had a clear image of the Almighty: He had a tail coat and pinstriped trousers, black, slicked-down hair and an aquiline nose.
On the whole, I was probably a rather strange child, and I wonder what my life might have been like if I'd met a decent theologian when I was nine.”

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"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)

“The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. If only you could mix them together, you'd end up with normal people.”

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The Carpet People (1971; 1992)

“Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd all be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-above-board way known as 'doing business.”

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The Carpet People (1971; 1992)

“It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.”

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Terry Pratchett kniha The Unadulterated Cat

The Unadulterated Cat (1989)

“Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.”

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The Unadulterated Cat (1989)

“Currently there's five machines permanently networked here. They all contain the serious core stuff. A couple of the machines are pensioned off 486s, with little other value now. Plus there's two Jaz drives in the building and the portable also carries a fair amount of stuff. Plus every Friday a man comes around and carves all the new stuff onto stone slabs and buries them in the garden… I think I'm okay.”

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“I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.”

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“In Reading [England] there is this thing called the IDR, short for "Inner Distribution Road", which is bureaucratese for "Big thing that cost a lot of money and relieves traffic problems, provided all your traffic wants to orbit the town centre permanently". It's a 2-3 lane dual carriageway that goes round the town centre. It has lots of roundabouts, an overhead section, a couple of spare motorway-like exits (that's British motorways -- y'know, the roundabout with the main road going under it), and a thing called the Watlington Street Gyratory, where you have to get in lane for your intended destination about three years and two corners before you get there with no signposting. I used to cycle along it every day to get to school, before I fell off at 35 mph. [Kids! Don't try this at home! ] I know it well. I believe it is impossible to leave Reading heading west.”

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