#terry-pratchett — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
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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.
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/2932…
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And, if they're said with the right passion and the gods are feeling bored, sometimes the universe will reform itself around words like that. Words have always had the power to change the world. (Soul Music)
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They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that. (Feet of Clay)
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The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
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In the night time streets of Ankh-Morpork caution is an absolute. There is no such thing as moderately cautious. You are either very cautious, or you are dead. You might be walking around and breathing, but you’re dead, just the same.
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Attractive men were not in plentiful supply in Lancre, where licking your hand and smoothing your hair down before taking a girl out was considered swanky. (Carpe Jugulum)
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Greebo turned upon Granny Weatherwax a yellow-eyed stare of self-satisfied malevolence, such as cats always reserve for people who don’t like them, and purred. Greebo was possibly the only cat who could snigger in purr.
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There was considerable satisfaction in a clean kill. What there wasn't supposed to be was pleasure in a messy one.
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Small Gods by Terry Pratchett: Book 40 of 2026: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: The Turtle moves.
https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2026/09/09/small-gods-by-terry-pratchett
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