Terry Pratchett Quotes


31 Terry Pratchett quotes:



"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 the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version 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."
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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."
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"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: Pratchett Quotes Category: Universe Quotes
"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"
Author: Pratchett Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it"
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"Humans need fantasy to be human. 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 you act, like there was some sort of 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."
Author: Pratchett Quotes Category: Honor Quotes
"Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up"
Author: Pratchett Quotes Category: Genius Quotes
"Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone."
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"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head."
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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."
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"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
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"Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
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"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
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"It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing."
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"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
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"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."
Author: Pratchett Quotes Category: English Author Quotes Exercise Quotes
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
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