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‘Oh, don’t blame yourself, Mrs. Ogg. I’m sure others will do that for you-’ (Carpe Jugulum)
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‘Oh, don’t blame yourself, Mrs. Ogg. I’m sure others will do that for you-’ (Carpe Jugulum)
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It was just that she had preferred him when he’d been a Fool. There’s something about a man who tinkles gently as he moves. (Lords and Ladies)
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It was just that she had preferred him when he’d been a Fool. There’s something about a man who tinkles gently as he moves. (Lords and Ladies)
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Keep 'em busy. That was one of the three rules of being chief that old Grimm had passed on to him. Act confidently, never say 'I don't know,' and when all else fails, keep 'em busy.
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Keep 'em busy. That was one of the three rules of being chief that old Grimm had passed on to him. Act confidently, never say 'I don't know,' and when all else fails, keep 'em busy.
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The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat. (Small Gods)
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The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about as good a turn of speed as you need to hunt down a lettuce. It has survived while the rest of evolution flowed past it by being, on the whole, no threat to anyone and too much trouble to eat. (Small Gods)
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He wasn't certain what unisex was but expected that it was what he normally experienced. (Interesting Times)
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He wasn't certain what unisex was but expected that it was what he normally experienced. (Interesting Times)
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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Metres, the Mile, the Marathon – he’d run them all. (Last Continent)
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Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Metres, the Mile, the Marathon – he’d run them all. (Last Continent)
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… no one can outstare a witch, ‘cept a goat, of course.
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… no one can outstare a witch, ‘cept a goat, of course.
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It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn’t true. Silence is only the absence of noise.
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It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn’t true. Silence is only the absence of noise.
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As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
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As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
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Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, ‘It’s indoor work with no heavy lifting …’ (Small Gods)
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Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, ‘It’s indoor work with no heavy lifting …’ (Small Gods)
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She had got ‘diuerse’ out of the Almanack, which she read every night. It was always predicting ‘diuerse plagues’ and ‘diurse ill-fortune’. Granny wasn’t entirely sure what it meant but it was a damn good word all the same.
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She had got ‘diuerse’ out of the Almanack, which she read every night. It was always predicting ‘diuerse plagues’ and ‘diurse ill-fortune’. Granny wasn’t entirely sure what it meant but it was a damn good word all the same.
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Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. (Lords and Ladies) -
Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. (Lords and Ladies) -
There is nowhere Death will not go, no matter how distant and dangerous. In fact the more dangerous it is, the more likely he is to be there already.
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There is nowhere Death will not go, no matter how distant and dangerous. In fact the more dangerous it is, the more likely he is to be there already.
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But Magrat, like this, frightened him more than the elves. It was like being charged by sheep. (Lords and Ladies)
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But Magrat, like this, frightened him more than the elves. It was like being charged by sheep. (Lords and Ladies)
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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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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 was probably no combination of vowels that could do justice to the cry Nanny Ogg made on seeing a young baby. It included sounds known only to cats. (Carpe Jugulum)
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... there was probably no combination of vowels that could do justice to the cry Nanny Ogg made on seeing a young baby. It included sounds known only to cats. (Carpe Jugulum)
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“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” (Moving Pictures)
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“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.” (Moving Pictures)
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At the beginning of the year, I decided to read the entire Discworld series (about half will be re-reading). Since I don't have much time, I read slowly. So I just finished Equal Rites. At this pace, I'll finish all the books around May 2036. Hooray! 😀
#Discworld #terrypratchett #bookstodon #currentlyreading #fantasy
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At the beginning of the year, I decided to read the entire Discworld series (about half will be re-reading). Since I don't have much time, I read slowly. So I just finished Equal Rites. At this pace, I'll finish all the books around May 2036. Hooray! 😀
#Discworld #terrypratchett #bookstodon #currentlyreading #fantasy
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‘There’s no greys, 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.’ (Carpe Jugulum) -
‘There’s no greys, 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.’ (Carpe Jugulum) -
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There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings.
The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired* – but that’s not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there is always something before. It’s always a case of Now Read On.
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There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings.
The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired* – but that’s not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there is always something before. It’s always a case of Now Read On.
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Am I the only one who misses the hell out of Terry Pratchett? And wishes he had a new book coming out?
#TerryPratchett #FantasyAuthors #writing #writers #WritersCoffeeClub
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Am I the only one who misses the hell out of Terry Pratchett? And wishes he had a new book coming out?
#TerryPratchett #FantasyAuthors #writing #writers #WritersCoffeeClub
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... Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag of rattlesnakes. He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. The Creator had a lot of remarkably good ideas when he put the world together, but making it understandable hadn’t been one of them.
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... Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag of rattlesnakes. He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.
Which was going to be hard, because there wasn’t one. The Creator had a lot of remarkably good ideas when he put the world together, but making it understandable hadn’t been one of them.
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And so Agnes has finally sung... the International Discworld Convention 2026 is now (officially) closed!
We have loved seeing you all, and hope you've had just as much fun as we have.
Here's to 2028!
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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.
