#terrypratchett — Public Fediverse posts
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‘And is he a fair and just ruler?’
Carding thought about it. The Patrician’s spy network was said to be superb. ‘I would say,’ he said carefully, ‘that he is unfair and unjust, but scrupulously even-handed. He is unfair and unjust to everyone, without fear or favour’.
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…in the house of Death there is no time but the present. (There was, of course, a present before the present now, but that was also the present. It was just an older one.)
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'You've never been musical, Dean,' said Ridcully. 'It's one of your good points.' (Soul Music)
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Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. (Lords and Ladies)He had in fact been raised to be a Fool, a man whose job it was to caper and tell jokes and have custard poured down his trousers. This had naturally given him a grave and solemn approach to life and a grim determination never to laugh at anything ever again, especially in the presence of custard. (Lords and Ladies)
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Parents were never young. They were merely waiting to become Parents. (Soul Music)
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There was plenty of flat ground in the Ramtops. The problem was that nearly all of it was vertical.
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“When you've made up your mind to shout out who you are to the world, it's a relief to know, that you can do it in a whisper.”
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‘I think maybe I’d better make you up the cure for drinking too much beer, mate.’
‘What’s the cure?’
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Nanny Ogg sent a number of cards home to her family, not a single one of which got back before she did. This is traditional, and happens everywhere in the universe.
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... evil might come animal sharp in the night or greyly by day on a list ... (Carpe Jugulum)
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‘Luck is my middle name,’ said Rincewind, indistinctly. ‘Mind you, my first name is Bad.’ (Interesting Times)
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‘It’s never happened before.’
‘Lots of things have never happened before. We’re only born once.’
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“Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
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‘I believe you find life such a problem because you think that there are the good people and the bad people,’ said the man. ‘You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.’
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Scientists say Terry Pratchett’s adjectives showed signs of dementia nine years before his diagnosis. His biographer says they’re wrong.
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Miss Eulalie Butts and her colleague, Miss Delcross, had founded the college on the astonishing idea that, since gels had nothing much to do until someone married them, they might as well occupy themselves with learning things. (Soul Music)
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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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All my computers in my personal network for nigh on 30 years have been named after characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels. I'm typing this on "Vetinari". It seemed a good choice because I'm unlikely to run out of names, even considering I name network appliances and VMs.
At previous companies I managed machines and networks for, one had machines named after female singers (though I didn't start that tradition), and another used the names of solar system bodies - planets and moons, mostly.
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‘My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure,’ said Carrot.
‘Really? Well, there’s eleven of them.’
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Hanging around is another thing tortoises are very good at. They’re practically world champions. (Small Gods)
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It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as ‘slightly foxed’, although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.
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No-one likes being told it’s their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it’s your lucky day, something bad is about to happen.
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"The horses were quietly cropping the rich grass by the stream. Yellow butterflies skittered among the bushes. There was a smell of thyme and a buzzing of bees. The wild pigs on the spit sizzled gently. Hrun shrugged and went back to oiling his biceps. They gleamed."
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
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…like many old ladies, Nanny Ogg was a bottomless pit for free food. (Carpe Jugulum)
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Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. (Interesting Times)
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