"Stuck? You're an *alien*," said Johnny. "Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact."

Terry Pratchett, Only You Can Save Mankind

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+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

"Bingeley bingeley beep!"

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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“No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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1/2

Simony's eyes gleamed with the gleam of a man who had seen the future and found it covered with armour plating.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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"You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. "

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

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1/2

Mrs. Nugent was the Johnson's next door neighbour, and known to be unreasonable on subjects like Madonna played at full volume at 3 a.m.

Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead

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- "My granny says that dying is like going to sleep," Mort added, a shade hopefully.
- I WOULDN'T KNOW. I HAVE DONE NEITHER.

Terry Pratchett, Mort

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“I assure you I will not kill you,” said Inigo.

“I know that,” said Vimes. “But will you try?”

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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CONCORDE: It goes twice as fast as a bullet and you get smoked salmon.

From A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Enquiring Young Nomeby Angalo de Haberdasheri
Terry Pratchett, Wings

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A bit of lore for Monstrous Regiment.
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"You're humming, Sam," said Sybil, after a while. "That means that something awful is going to happen to somebody."

"Wonderful thing, technology," said Vimes, buttering a slice of toast. "I can see it has its uses."

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
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Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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It's an old magical principle -- it's even filtered down into RPG systems
-- that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' -- in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

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