"When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!"
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"Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge."
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"But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told."
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"Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen."
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"Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good."
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"Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought."
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"I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such."
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"One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet."
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"Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human."
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"An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?"
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"Humans can think inhuman thoughts."
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"It's amazing how fast gold works."
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"Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth."
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"Everything is a test."
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"People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street."
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"Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated."
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"The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all."
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"And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today."
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"The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow."
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"They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on"
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