Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu-- was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
DEATH: "REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET — Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.

— Terry Pratchett, #Hogfather

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“And yet we say this. Here is the cave at the end of the world, peace is made between dwarf and troll, and we will march beyond the hand of Death together. For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good...”
Terry Pratchett; Thud!
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I’ve been re-reading Terry Pratchett’s “Guards! Guards!”, and I’ve just got to the bit where a plan to seize power goes horribly wrong, and the city state of Ankh-Morpork invests an actual dragon that’s been burning and terrorising the city as their head of state.
Then people start talking about how it’ll be strong on foreign policy, and look this is suddenly a bit too real, okay? 😰 #pratchett #discworld

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere."

Terry Pratchett, Mort

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Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the "Marie Celeste", and the chuck keys for electric drills.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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Göttin der Türgriffe. Warum hab ich da sofort die #Schweibenwelt / #discworld vor Augen? Und wer hat sich diese Göttin vorgestellt?!

“If the landslide is big enough, even square pebbles will roll.”
Terry Pratchett; Monstrous Regiment
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett, Diggers

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