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Really small. A wrong question for Maurice was one that he didn’t want anyone to ask. Not that he used magic very much. 178-179), The important thing to remember was that Holy Wood wasn't a real place at all. ", (when examining the floating book acting like a guard dog) "Ahh, let's not press this curiosity thing too far then shall we? "You are making a mockery of the whole business, Vimes!" Discover (and save!) Never trust what most people tell you. Art. Aren’t we, lads? (p. 12), He’s dead. Suffice it to say that being the goddess of Misunderstanding she wasn't especially popular and it didn't take much to prevent her from being invited to weddings, which didn't please Errata at all, and so she devised a cunning plan to take vengeance. (p. 294), What was strange to Susan was that she felt nothing. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. Pretty good, eh? And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. (p. 4), The librarian was, ex officio, a member of the college council. She didn't like its expression at all. Forget Your Gods. She took the view that if you were capable of learning, you’d work it out. Her parents had sent her there for that very reason. (p. 43), The Watch hadn't liked it, but the plain fact was that the thieves were far better at controlling crime than the Watch had ever been. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy is, and always will be, you - the master of lies. It wasn't when you did headology on daft old men, or mixed up medicines, or stuck up for yourself, or knew one herb from another. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. The word spread out in coils and tendrils, getting everywhere. 357-358). (p. 124), “Have you really got the eye of a mass-murderer?”, They didn’t like the Unmentionables. That's not my class. 73-74), He sighed, and leaned over the desk. (p. 202), He hated the way his mind worked. Mr. Groat took a measured spoonful of tincture of rhubarb and cayenne pepper, to keep the tubes open, and checked that he still had the dead mole round his neck, to ward off any sudden attack of doctors. That is to say, they went to bed at the same time as the chickens went to bed, and got up at the same time as the cows got up. They believed in it the same way they believed in punctuation; it didn’t matter where you put it, so long as it was there. 2 years ago. But then, some people would say anything. (p. 26), "And, of course, any citizen has the right to bear arms. "Seems to me...seems to me...look, death must be going on, right? But you’re never in a story when you need to be. (p. 287), She paused. (p. 34), “The mural is one of the most recognizable paintings in the world! “The mine falls to us by default?” said Vetinari. Now, what needs to be done first? (p. 183), It’s all there, sir. I do not understand this death-of-the-mind. Hardback - Discworld Collector's Library, Publisher: Gollancz, Cover Artist: Joe Mclaren, ISBN 978-1-473-20018-0, February 2014 ; Paperback - Publisher: Gollancz, Cover Artist: Josh Kirby - With internal illustrations by Josh Kirby, ISBN 0-575-04836-0, August 1990 Unfortunately, it goes, You can always find an excuse that your side will accept, and who cares what the enemy thinks? The key point was never to tell the truth. Blood is generally considered very efficient for this purpose. Your shape affects how you think. (p. 126), Forever was over. (p. 352), "Oh? That's one of the things that sets us apart from animals. In short, Mort was one of those people who are more dangerous than a bag full of rattlesnakes. (p. 89), Susan had never been able to see the attraction in cats. It’s not as though I have any ease to be put at.” (p. 46), People needed to see coppers at a time like this. Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. Humans need fantasy to be human. Incidentally, it’s best not to argue with the nursing staff. (p. 389). This was about words, and she knew about words. ", Dwarfs are very attached to gold. And the people there see you differently, too. (p. 251), You can tell as many lies as you like if it’s, Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. You turn over rubbish bins and scrawl on walls in the name of The People, who’d clip you round the ear if they found you doing it. Then her natural cynicism reinflated. But she was still alive, and that felt good. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. It would only attract his attention and might cause trouble. ", "Everything is magic when you don't know what it is. They seemed to cling to ignorance because it smelled familiar. Provided they didn’t touch his birds, Hodgesaargh didn’t much mind who ran the castle. It was mumbled words and weird drawings in old books, and in the wrong hands it was dangerous as hell, but not half as dangerous as it could be in the right hands. ", "Sometimes people fool themselves into believing things that aren't true. Wishes needed thought. (p. 97), The wise man does not seek enlightenment, he waits for it. They arrived slowly and left slowly and when they were there they occupied a lot of space, much of it below the surface. He felt a bit sorry that he’d pointed out the mistake. (p. 32), The guard gave him what could loosely be called an old-fashioned look. 31-32), The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room. Weapons raised the ante far too high. “Mistress Weatherwax is the head witch, then, is she?”, Petulia spent a lot of time trying to find out what other people thought so that she could think the same way. Have a nice day! 'Dead?' “From what I hear he mostly doesn’t do a —ing thing!” he complained. It must be something about high office. I am not sure there is such a thing as right. (p. 40), The window was open, because the school encouraged fresh air. "Actors," said Granny, witheringly. (p. 213), History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong, Mr. Bucket. “Can I ask a question, sir?” said Maurice, as Death turned to go. Fabricati diem, Pvnc. You couldn’t, of course. (p. 255). He wanted to make a bed of it. He [Ptaclusp] put his arms around his sons' shoulders. Shouting, smiting, getting angry all the time...don’t think anyone was getting anything out of it, really. Integrity makes very poor armor. ", "Ridiculous!" He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me. “And what you’ve got there, my friend, is patriotism. When he was a boy, he’d read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and had looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands, and glorious victories. "Fortune favors the brave, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. ", (when examining the Apprentice) "Good grief! “All that yelling from little spitballs like Strappi? It was much better to rely on a gift for talking his way out of things, confusing the issue and, if that failed, some well-soled shoes and a cry of “Look, what’s that over there!”. Greebo's grin gradually faded, until there was nothing left but the cat. ", The last rats of Brother Watchtower's self-confidence fled the sinking ship of courage. In Trash We Trust. "I've got to die a queen! Smart is only a polished version of dumb. "As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.". There was a shortage of seaside properties with real lava flows near a reliable source of piranhas. (p. 48). After all, the Watch had to work twice as hard to cut crime just a little, whereas all the Guild had to do was to work less. Well go on, ask it. On the stars, maybe. (p. 368), The king's all for it. 83-84), He'd stopped wondering how he'd come to be here, wherever it was. “I’ve starved a few times. (p. 221). Nanny Ogg looked him up and down or, at least, down and further down. “Miss Tick isn’t here. ", "Now is the winter of the tents, er, the discontent, made all the more dreary for the lack of, of, uh, death. The man had a whole sword. And every time you did, it brought closer the day when you could never get off and never forget. Her left bosom is nearly uncovered, eh? The other person in this case had been him. In the carnage that followed, the Tsortean Falchion was lost, perhaps forever... Lewton: I've had some bad days since I started work as a private investigater. There were more than nine hundred known gods on the Disc, and research theologians were discovering more every year. Terry Pratchett - Author of numerous humorous books. They won't let themselves see that what they believe is wrong. It just means that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the complicated bits around the edges. Fear, anger, envy...emotions bring you to life, which is a brief period just before you die. I ushered souls into the next world. (p. 95), Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort. (p. 182), The senior wizards know that the proper purpose of magic is to form a social pyramid with the wizards on top of it, eating big dinners. "'E's fighting in there!" Nanny shook her head. Rincewind: Oh, a library card! (p. 176), "Baths is unhygienic," Granny declared. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy." Numbers were used only by people who wanted to put one over on you. "Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war. Well, the cosmic quantum tick...that’s what the abbot calls it...the cosmic quantum tick is much smaller than that. (p. 2). The ability to cajole, threaten, and terrify has always worked well enough. (p. 436), All tribal myths are true, for a given value of “true.” (p. 2), We might find out why mankind is here, although that is more complicated and begs the question “Where else should we be?” (p. 2), You couldn’t stop Tradition. ", Was that justice? (p. 95), The sea, Brutha. (p. 181), Rincewind wasn’t certain how to deal with this. But they would never, ever. The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. (p. 313), The question hung in the air like a corpse from a beam. (p. 2), Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork. "I know none of us can help how we're made, but how come you've been made to look like a chicken?". Whether to be extremely cold, reach the heights of fashion and, and sniffing or to keep drawing breath and lose all fashion sense forever more.". I see their lies and excuses and fears. And for that reason she didn’t wear any occult jewelry, or have a glowing magical knife or a silver goblet with a pattern of skulls all around it, or carry a broomstick with sparks coming out of it, all of which are tiny hints that there may be a witch around. Here's an important rule: never give a monkey the key to the banana plantation. (p. 343), They'd drag him off and it'd be the start of another Adventure, i. e., a period of horror and unpleasantness. Most husbands can. (p. 274), Vimes prodded at it as politely as he dared, and then took the usual view that, if you can recognize at least half of it, it's probably okay to eat the rest. Or: Yes, there is, but it's not what you think? said the Dean. "You know I've never agreed with baths. If you could go to five minutes, then you’d go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours…and not see your son all evening. That’s what I’m told. (p. 304). These are men who are trying to work out how the world fits together, not by magic, not by religion, but just by inserting their brains in whatever crack they can find and trying to lever it apart. (pp. “There have been complaints?” said Miss Susan. £ 16.99 . Anyone watching would have seen Rincewind dart backward and forward across the shimmering heaps, scrabbling desperately among them, throwing aside charred furniture, pulling aside lumps of fallen roof with less than superhuman strength. And now no one, not you, not me, no one, even knows who this god was or his name or what he looked like. Tiffany walked across the grass where the palace had been. he must have once been a human wizard. I thought the apprentices were all kept tied to stakes. Gods play games with the fates of men. It depends who you talk to, really). ", "Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture. 233-234), Then another insight struck him at the speed of beer. Anyway, Angua seemed to have taken this case personally. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir. Discworld’s witches, based around the rural and mostly vertical kingdom of Lancre, deliver babies, treat warts and keep an eye on troublesome kings, vampires or incursions from other worlds, which they do not hold with. I was the grave of all hope. When I first met you, you were chained to a wall like a watchdog and didn’t speak much beyond a grunt, he thought. I ATEN'T DED ... Discworld Lords and Ladies Terry Pratchett quotes quote Ponder Stibbons the librarian “But look,” said Ponder, “the graveyeards are full of people who rushed in bravely but unwisely.” — Lords and Ladies, T. Pratchett. 159-160), Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you. But at the moment he was a young fool, which is more easily excused. (p. 257), "It's not my fault if people misuse the—", The figures looked more or less human. Fooling dishonest men was a lot safer and, somehow, more sporting. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that." It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips. It's an amazing coincidence, but my grandfather once had his grandfather whipped for malicious lingering. Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenery that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. ", "Sorry, but I think it's about time for me to take my medicine. When you wield it you don't get a feeling of power, you just get blisters; you could believe it was a sword that had been used so much that it had ceased to be anything other than a quintessential sword, a long piece of metal with very sharp edges. ', "I wonder ... Am I really a bastard or am I just really good at thinking like one?". (p. 267). Thousands of dollars in a day! Play Sound YMMV • ... Head Librarian: “Our oxen wandered off, and alas, the snow’s too deep to walk through. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. But if they say "Enter," don't stop to pack. (p. 258). Aug 14, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Petronella S. DeLoreanus. It also helps to push back boundaries, and it doesn't much matter what boundaries these are, since as any researcher will tell you it's the pushing that matters, not the boundary. So tiny that a second would be like a billion years. said Magrat plaintively. I get a migraine if people don't ask the right questions once the answers have come. he stuttered, grabbing the captain's arm. Next thing, there's a bolt of lightning through the door with a note wrapped round it saying, ‘Yes, we do' and a pair of sandals with smoke coming out. Death has to happen. “Here is a story to believe,” she said. It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it. It was preventing yourself becoming a humanitarian at night that took the real effort. I realize the concept may be unfamiliar.”, Moist shrugged. it said sarcastically. 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