"If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch."
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"Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im."
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"They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?"
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"Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect."
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"He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine."
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"You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant. You mean the sledgehammer, sir? Yes."
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"I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church."
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"Cake is not the issue here."
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"Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.""
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"It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY."
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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."
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"The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last."
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"And the new day was a great big fish."
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"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
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"It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers"
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"There was no himself in himself."
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"A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy."
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"In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book."
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"Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY."
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"Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man."
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