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Letter "T" » Terry Pratchett Quotes
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«Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.»
«Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Darkness
| Keywords:
fast, faster, finds, first light, the darkness, travels, waiting
«Sooner or later we're all someone's dog»
«You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.»
«When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise?»
«But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.»
«Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.»
«Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
moaning, moans, mostly, Schrodinger, short stories, short story, The short story, unfinished
«You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink»
«The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
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Universe
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balance, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, charm, depended, forces, identified, identifies, identifying, operation, persuasion, persuasions, uncertainty
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