“In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.”
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“But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.”
“Humans can think inhuman thoughts.”
“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.”
“And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.”
“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”
“I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.”
“I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.”
“Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.”
“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”
“Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.”
“[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.”
“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”
“Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.”
“Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.”
“Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.”
“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”
“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”
“I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.”
“Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.”