"[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks."
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"He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one."
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"I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!"
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"It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored."
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"Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it."
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"Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror."
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"Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero."
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"He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis."
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"That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp."
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"And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"
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"I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If that's your idea of a morally acceptable time, I might add."
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"Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice."
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"WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?"
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"That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"
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"... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone."
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"But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat."
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"only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll."
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"All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone."
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"Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves."
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"Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there."
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