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‘Cats are sacred,’ said Dios, shocked at the words Teppic uttered.
‘Long-legged cats with silver fur and disdainful expressions are, maybe,’ said Teppic nursing his hand, ‘I don’t know about this sort. I’m sure sacred cats don’t leave dead ibises under the bed. And I’m certain that sacred cats that live surrounded by endless sand don’t come indoors and do it in the king’s sandals, Dios.’
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‘Everyone’s just people.’
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I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE. (Feet of Clay)
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“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”
“Nope.”
“Pardon?”
“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that—”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things…
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People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they’re standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don’t look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. (Feet of Clay)
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There are many reasons for being friends with someone. The fact that he’s pointing a deadly weapon at you is among the top four. (Last Continent)
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You couldn’t put off the inevitable. Because sooner or later, you reached the place where the inevitable just went and waited. (Small Gods)
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Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald will explore Lancre, the Ramtops, Uberwald, and the Chalk, drawing heavily on Terry Pratchett’s witches and supernatural inhabitants of the Disc. #rpgs #boardGames #discworld #modiphius #gamefound #terryPratchett
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/news/fantasy/modiphius-takes-discworld-beyond-ankh-morpork-with-new-gamefound-campaign?utm_source=mastodon -
He was spending more nights now watching Hex trawl the invisible writings for any hints. In theory, because of the nature of L-space, absolutely everything was available to him, but that only meant that it was more or less impossible to find whatever it was you were looking for, which is the purpose of computers. (Last Continent)
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Logic is a wonderful thing but it doesn’t always beat actual thought. (Last Continent)
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Albert grunted. ‘Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?’
Mort thought for a moment.
‘No,’ he said eventually, ‘what?’
There was silence.
Then Albert straightened up and said, ‘Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve ‘em right.’
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The time to start running was around about the 'e' in 'Hey you!' (Interesting Times)
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‘That’s right,’ he said. ‘We’re philosophers. We think, therefore we am.’ (Small Gods)
The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote.*
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Vimes lowered the ape, who wisely didn’t make an issue of it because a man angry enough to lift 300 lbs of orangutan without noticing is a man with too much on his mind.
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Wishing a very happy birthday to Ian Mitchell (@DiscworldShoppe) - long-time Convention guest and enterprising Emporium proprietor! We were sorry not to see you at this year's #DiscworldConvention.
Two Emporium birthdays in a row!
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In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.
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'I can't have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.'
'Good,' said Snibril.
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‘If you were a boy I’d say are you going to seek your fortune?’
‘Can’t girls seek their fortune?’
‘I think they’re supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.’
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‘I wouldn’t do that if I were you, old chap,’ said the Senior Wrangler. ‘You don’t know where it might take you.’
‘Don’t care,’ said the Dean. He still didn’t take his eyes of the thing.
‘I mean, it’s not of this world,’ said the Senior Wrangler.
‘I’ve been of this world for more than seventy years,’ said the Dean, ‘and it is extremely boring.’ (Soul Music) -
Wishing a very happy birthday to Bernard Pearson - long time friend of STP, official "piss off" announcer, and beloved Convention guest for many years! We missed you very much at this year's Convention.
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett
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Officers had a tried and tested way of solving problems like this. It was called a sergeant.
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Mustrum Ridcully was notorious for not trying to understand things if there was anyone around to do it for him. (Last Continent)
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But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No-one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you’d rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot.
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Brutha had never been any good at lying. The truth itself had always seemed so incomprehensible that complicating things even further had always been beyond him. (Small Gods)
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'... humans are human.'
AND SIXPENCE IS SIXPENCE. BUT CORN IS NOT JUST CORN.
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Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room.