#terry-pratchett — Public Fediverse posts
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Distillation of alcohol was illegal in Lancre. On the other hand, King Verence had long ago given up any idea of stopping a witch doing something she wanted to do, so merely required Nanny Ogg to keep her still somewhere it wasn’t obvious. She thoroughly approved of the prohibition, since this gave her an unchallenged market for her own product, known wherever men fell backwards into a ditch as ‘suicider.’ (Maskerade)
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Just because fate throws you together doesn’t mean fate’s got it right.
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…Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it’d save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful. (Lords and Ladies)
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[Hrun] spent a great deal of time in similar situations, seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners, their lives, and at least one cause of their distress.
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Humans Are Not Always Wrong.
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"This is it, he thought. This is where we've filled ourselves up with so many questions that they're starting to overflow and become answers."
#TerryPratchett was my most beloved author by far when I was a teenager, but I've re-read him only a few times over the last few decades. Unlike some of my other early literary faves, this one at least stands up very well for me. Not only is it endlessly quotable, but it is a well plotted mystery, with themes of gender and multiculturalism that don't feel dated, plus what's not to like about golems starting a worker's revolution? @bookstodon #bookstodon
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The sudden appearance of a naked woman always caused a rethink of anyone’s immediate plans.
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Happy International Bacon Day!
Sam Vimes is famously fond of a bacon butty or three -- much to Lady Sybil's disapproval. But what makes a sandwich a "Vimes BLT"?
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #InternationalDay #Bacon #InternationalBaconDay
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‘No, my father’s a pharaoh. My mother was a concubine, I think.’
‘I thought that was some sort of vegetable.’
‘I don’t think so. We’ve never really discussed it. Anyway, she died when I was young.’
‘How dreadful,’ said Chidder cheerfully.
‘She went for a moonlight swim in what turned out to be a crocodile.’
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'People've got enough to cope with just being people.' (Lords and Ladies)
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The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they’d be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armor.
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom
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‘Well, Nobby, you’re what I might call a career soldier, right?’ ‘‘S’right, Fred.’
‘How many dishonourable discharges have you had?’
‘Lots,’ said Nobby, proudly. ‘But I always puts a poultice on ‘em.’ (Men at Arms) -
The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his. (Soul Music)
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‘I meant,’ said Iplsore bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?’
Death thought about it.
‘CATS,’ he said eventually, ‘CATS ARE NICE.’
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Rincewind woke with a scream, to get it over with. (Last Continent)
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Thanks! Didn't know that; certainly plausibly Pratchettian.
I met Sir Terry once. Great man; perhaps even greater hat.
Fast lookups: The net suspects a version of the quote is from his "The Light Fantastic." Opinions differ as to whether it specifically said "mushrooms" or "fungi" or "some things."
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The person on the other side was a young woman. Very obviously a young woman. There was no possible way that she could have been mistaken for a young man in any language, especially Braille. (Maskerade)
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'Well, if it was a choice of wishing a child health, wealth and happiness, or Granny Weatherwax on her side, I know which I'd choose,' said Magrat. (Carpe Jugulum)
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‘It’s only money.’
‘Yes, but it’s only my money, not only your money,’ Nanny pointed out.
‘We witches have always held everything in common, you know that,’ said Granny.
‘Well, yes,’ said Nanny, and once again cut to the heart of the sociopolitical debate. ‘It’s easy to hold everything in common when no one’s got anything.’ (Maskerade) -
'I hate it when people are nice to me. It means something bad is going to happen.' (Interesting Times)
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…the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. (Small Gods)
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‘But we’re a university! We have to have a library!’ said Ridcully. ‘It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn’t go into the Library?’
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‘Poor I don’t mind,’ said the Seriph. ‘It’s sobriety that is giving me difficulties.’
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The Patrician’s personal guard was not known for its responsive approach to community policing, preferring to cut bits off instead. Among the things they took a dim view of was, well, basically, people being in the same universe.
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You can read a blog post Sir Terry wrote about his experiences with dementia here - https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/blog/terry-pratchett-on-dementia/
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #WorldAlzheimersMonth #Alzheimers #PCA #TerryPratchett
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Today marks the beginning of World Alzheimer's Month. Sir Terry Pratchett was a patron of Alzheimer's Research UK and had a form of Alzheimer's himself.
At this year's #DiscworldConvention, we raised over £30,000 for three charities -- including Alzheimer's Society!
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #WorldAlzheimersMonth #Alzheimers #TerryPratchett
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...the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skin, bits of dead cat, and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. (Soul Music)