"His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few."
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"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."
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"London was not designed for cars. Come to that, it wasn't designed for people. It just sort of happened. This created problems, and the solutions that were implemented became the next problems, five or ten or a hundred years down the line."
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"I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it."
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"Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen."
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"Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist."
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"My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books."
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"What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him."
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"We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?"
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"...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."
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"… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong."
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"He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania"
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"Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad."
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"Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat"
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"They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted."
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"Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out."
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"I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!"
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"Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity."
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"Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless."
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"This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)"
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