"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."
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"Open your eyes and then open your eyes again."
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"I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted."
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"Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living."
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"Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it gives it an added dimension."
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"I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?"
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"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
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"Imagination, not intelligence, made us human."
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"I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari"
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"And never resist a perfect moment."
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"SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong."
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"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."
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"The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within."
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"I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think."
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"Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is."
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"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
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"Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight."
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"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse."
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"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."
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"It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice."
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