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81 " IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE. "
― Terry Pratchett
82 " It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. "
― Terry Pratchett , Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
83 " OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR? "
― Terry Pratchett , Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
84 " The reaper does not listen to the harvest. "
― Terry Pratchett , Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
85 " WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED? "
86 " YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about. "
― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)
87 " He took his hands off the oars and pulled in the mooring rope. If I make a couple of loops, he thought, I can strap the axe on to my back.He had a mental picture of what could happen to a man who plunged into the cauldron below a waterfall with a sharp piece of metal attached to his body.GOOD MORNING.Vimes blinked. A tall dark robed figure was now sitting in the boat.'Are you Death?'IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE.'I'm going to die?'POSSIBLY.'Possibly? You turn up when people are possibly going to die?'OH, YES. IT'S QUITE THE NEW THING. IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE.'What's that?'I'M NOT SURE.'That's very helpful. "
― Terry Pratchett , The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)
88 " BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE RATHER STUPID AND WASTE THEIR LIVES. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT? HAVE YOU NOT LOOKED DOWN FROM THE HORSE AT A CITY AND THOUGHT HOW MUCH IT RESEMBLED AN ANT HEAP, FULL OF BLIND CREATURES WHO THINK THEIR MUNDANE LITTLE WORLD WAS REAL? YOU SEE THE LIGHTED WINDOWS AND WHAT YOU WANT TO THINK IS THAT THERE MAY BE MANY INTERESTING STORIES BEHIND THEM, BUT WHAT YOU KNOW IS THAT REALLY THERE ARE JUST DULL, DULL SOULS, MERE CONSUMERS OF FOOD, WHO THINK THEIR INSTINCTS ARE EMOTIONS AND THEIR TINY LITTLE LIVES OF MORE ACCOUNT THAN A WHISPER OF WIND.The blue glow was bottmless. It seemed to be sucking her own thoughts out of her mind.'No,' whispered Susan, 'no, I've never thought like that.'Death stood up abruptly and turned away. YOU MAY FIND OUT THAT IT HELPS, he said. "
89 " There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died. "
― Terry Pratchett , Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
90 " Was that what it was really like to be alive? The feeling of darkness dragging you forward?How could they live with it? And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair. Amazing. To feel you were a tiny living thing, sandwiched between two cliffs of darkness. How could they stand to be alive? "
91 " DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death "
― Terry Pratchett , The Truth
92 " The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. "
93 " First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft. "
94 " [Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! "
95 " I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel. "
96 " Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. "
97 " I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money. "
98 " Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough. "
― Terry Pratchett , The Last Hero (Discworld #27; Rincewind #7)
99 " That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing! "
― Terry Pratchett , Diggers (Bromeliad Trilogy, #2)
100 " If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards! "
― Terry Pratchett , The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)