I always call it 'Tour Flu', because two or three weeks in hot bookshops with hundreds of people usually produces an ailment of some kind. Going on tour is like a box of rare diseases -- you never know what you're going to get.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere."
Terry Pratchett, Mort
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Thud. Thud. Thud. Splat.
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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"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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There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.
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Bognor has always meant to me the quintessential English seaside experience (before all this global warming stuff): driving in the rain to get there, walking around in the rain looking for something to do when you're there, and driving home in the rain again...
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
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No-one would have believed, in the final years of the Century of the Fruitbat, that Discworld affairs were being watched keenly and impatiently by intelligences greater than Man's, or at least much nastier; that their affairs were being scrutinised and studied as a man with a three-day appetite might study the All-You-Can-Gobble-For-A-Dollar menu outside Harga's House of Ribs...
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
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"'Chapter Fifteen, Elementary Necromancy'", she read out loud. "'Lesson One: Correct Use of Shovel...'"
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
Terry Pratchett, Eric
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Death isn't on line. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it'd be interesting to see if he'd post things like: DON'T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?
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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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I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course...
Terry learns Naomi Campbell has written a book.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
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If broomsticks were cars, this one would be a split-window Morris Minor.
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
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AIRPORTS: A place where people hurry up and wait.
From A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Enquiring Young Nomeby Angalo de Haberdasheri
Terry Pratchett, Wings
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"The significant owl hoots in the night."
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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In Ghat they believe in vampire watermelons, although folklore is silent about what they believe about vampire watermelons. Possibly they suck back.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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"This isn't how I imagined it, chaps," said War. "I haven't been waiting for thousands of years just to fiddle around with bits of wire. It's not what you'd call dramatic. Albrecht Duerer didn't waste his time doing woodcuts of the Four Button-Pressers of the Apocalypse, I do know that."
Armageddon delayed by technical difficulties
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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On the fabled hidden continent of Xxxx, somewhere near the rim, there is a lost colony of wizards who wear corks around their pointy hats and live on nothing but prawns.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe.
It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
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