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Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8) QUOTES

Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8) QUOTES

1 " I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

2 " They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

3 " Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

4 " He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

5 " The hated have no reason to love. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

6 " She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’

Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of name is that, I ask you? Who’s going to take you seriously with a name like that? This is modern times, right?’

He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human – human werewolves, human dwarfs, human trolls... the melting pot melts in one direction only, and so we make progress. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

7 " Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

8 " … you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

9 " If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

10 " How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and,' 'the,' and 'I,' and 'it,' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

11 " If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

12 " Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

13 " but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

14 " The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

15 " Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

16 " We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

17 " Vimes died. The sun dropped out of the sky, giant lizards took over the world, and the stars exploded and went out and all hope vanished and gurgled into the sinktrap of oblivion. And gas filled the firmament and combusted and behold! There was a new heaven - or possibly not. And Disc and Io and and possibly verily life crawled out of the sea - or possibly didn't because it had been made by the gods, and lizards turned to less scaly lizards - or possibly did not. And lizards turned into birds and bugs turned into butterflies and a species of apple turned into banana and a kind of monkey fell out of a tree and realised life was better when you didn't have to spend your time hanging onto something. And in only a few billion years evolved trousers and ornamental stripey hats. Lastly the game of Crocket. And there, magically reincarnated, was Vimes, a little dizzy, standing on the village green looking into the smiling countenance of an enthusiast. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

18 " So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

19 " 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. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)

20 " Vimes woke in damp and utter darkness with sand under his cheek. Some parts of his body reported for duty, others protested that they had a note from their mother. "

― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)