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Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3) QUOTES

Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

3 " It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

4 " I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. “Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. “I think it’s called being human, or something. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

5 " Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

6 " The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

7 " There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

8 " If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

9 " They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

10 " There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact it is considered opinion of some of his tutors that he is incapable even of achieving level zero, which most normal people are born at; to put it another way, it has been suggested that when Rincewind dies the average occult ability of the human race will actually go up by a fraction. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

11 " Talent just defines what you do,” he said. “It doesn’t define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

12 " As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

13 " Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

14 " Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

15 " It didn't look like the kind of snow that whispers down gently in the pit of the night and in the morning turns the landscape into a glittering wonderland of uncommon and ethereal beauty. It looked like the kind of snow that intends to make the world as bloody cold as possible. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

16 " The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

17 " Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

18 " He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

19 " Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

20 " The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. "

― Terry Pratchett , Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)