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Humanity had arrived at a nasty shock. Humanity practically was things that didn’t have a position in time and space, such as imagination, pity, hope, history, and belief. Take those away and all you had was an ape that fell out of trees a lot.
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time (via hillarykobernickpoetry)
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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
Terry Pratchett,
Small Gods (via n0b0by)
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whatdiscworldtaughtme: 585. You don’t need anything to pull you down. Down’s where you go if there’s nothing to keep you up. (suggested by thegracechick)

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585. You don’t need anything to pull you down. Down’s where you go if there’s nothing to keep you up. (suggested by thegracechick)

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It’s like you said the other day,” said Adam. “You grow up readin’ about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus’ when you think the world’s full of amazin’ things, they tell you it’s really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin’ about for millions of years. ‘Snot worth growin’ up for, if you ask my opinion.
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (via kvothe-the-kingkiller)
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Light in all itz forms is mine passion. Light is my canvas, shadows are my brush.
Otto Chriek, from Terry Pratchett’s The Truth
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The press waited. It looked now like a great big feast. Soon he’d throw a lot of words into it. And in a few hours it would be hungry again, as if those words had never happened. You could feed it, but you could never fill it up.
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
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Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling of bliss. Strange word, he thought. It’s one of those words that describe something that does not make a noise but, if it did make a noise, would sound just like that. Bliss. It’s like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate.
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
whatdiscworldtaughtme: 135.When you’ve had everything, all that’s left is nothing.

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135.When you’ve had everything, all that’s left is nothing.

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The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel.
Terry Pratchett
whatdiscworldtaughtme: 536. People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.

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536. People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.

(Reblogged from whatdiscworldtaughtme)