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The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6) QUOTES

The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6) QUOTES

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 " Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

3 " To be frank, I find religion rather offensive. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

4 " To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

5 " Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

6 " ...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

7 " I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

8 " I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

9 " Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

10 " Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

11 " We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

12 " Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

13 " Cake is not the issue here. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

14 " Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

15 " Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

16 " The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn’t the kind of logic you’d use around midday. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

17 " Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

18 " I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED “LIVING.” WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN? "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

19 " But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"

"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)

20 " Historians have pointed out that it is in times of plenty that people feel like going to war. In times of famine they're simply trying to find enough to eat. When they've just enough to go round they tend to be polite. But when a banquet is spread before them, it's time to argue over the place settings. "

― Terry Pratchett , The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6)