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"This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do."
"Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous."
"And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head."
"You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing."
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
"Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time."
"The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god)."
"And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"
"Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot."
"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."
"And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions."
"We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience"
"And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
"I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once."
"Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job."
"His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things."
"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
"Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving"
"The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners."
"This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done."
