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1 " It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. "
― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)
2 " If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. "
― Terry Pratchett , Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches #4)
3 " Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. "
― Terry Pratchett
4 " The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. "
― Terry Pratchett , Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
5 " If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. "
― Terry Pratchett , Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch #1)
6 " This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. "
7 " Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. "
― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)
8 " Progress just means bad things happen faster. "
― Terry Pratchett , Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)
9 " I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. "
10 " The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. "
― Terry Pratchett , Diggers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #2)
11 " Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. "
― Terry Pratchett , Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
12 " Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry. "
― Terry Pratchett , Thief of Time (Discworld, #26; Death, #5)
13 " Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. "
14 " Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. "
― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
15 " In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. "
16 " DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. "
― Terry Pratchett , Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
17 " Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. "
― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
18 " It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. "
19 " He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. "
― Terry Pratchett , Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
20 " Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide. "
