The class was learning about some revolt in which some peasants had wanted
to stop being peasants and, since the nobles had won, had stopped being
peasants *really quickly*.
(Soul Music)
The class was learning about some revolt in which some peasants had wanted
to stop being peasants and, since the nobles had won, had stopped being
peasants *really quickly*.
(Soul Music)
The Patrician was a pragmatist. He never tried to fix things that worked.
Things that didn't work, however, got broken.
(Soul Music)
“Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling
scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't
automatically mean there's anything wrong.”
(Soul Music)
The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed
have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.
(Soul Music)
You could save people. You could get there in the nick of time. And something could snap its fingers and say, no , it has to be that way. Let me tell you how it has to be. This is how the legend goes.
(Soul Music)
This was music that had not only escaped but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
It was music that went down to the feet by way of the pelvis without paying a call on Mr. Brain.
(Soul Music)
“What duck?”
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The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of
the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.
(Soul Music)
(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.
(Soul Music)
TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. I REMEMBER THAT. SO SHOULD YOU.
Death still hadn't turned to face her.
'I don't see why we shouldn't change things if it makes the world better,' said Susan.
HAH.
'Are you too scared to change the world?'
Death turned. The very sight of his expression made Susan back away.
He advanced slowly towards her. His voice, when it came, was a hiss.
YOU SAY THAT TO ME? YOU STAND THERE IN YOUR PRETTY DRESS AND SAY THAT TO ME? YOU? YOU PRATTLE ON ABOUT CHANGING THE WORLD? COULD YOU FIND THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT IT? TO KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE AND DO IT, WHATEVER THE COST? IS THERE ONE HUMAN BEING ANYWHERE WHO KNOWS WHAT DUTY MEANS?
(Soul Music)
'Who's that playing now, Mr. Dibbler?'
'"And you".'
'Sorry, Mr. Dibbler?'
'Only they write it &U,' said Dibbler.
(Soul Music)
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
(Soul Music)
SOME SHADOWS ARE SO LONG, THEY ARRIVE BEFORE THE LIGHT.
(Soul Music)
“Scum," said Crash, his voice low with resigned menace, ”you've bought a
leopard, haven't you?"
(Soul Music)
“I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean
and turf and I'm mean and turf,
And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our
hats on backwards in a menacing way,
Yo!”
(Soul Music)
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.
(Soul Music)
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
(Soul Music)
People came to Ankh-Morpork to seek their fortune. Unfortunately, other
people sought it too.
(Soul Music)
The question seldom addressed is *where* Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair
is an even more embarassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the
deodorant bottle.
(Soul Music)
SNH, SNH, SNH.
(Soul Music)
Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
Or what, for that matter.
(Soul Music)
There was a roar like the scream of a camel who has just seen two bricks.
(Soul Music)
'And I suppose you know what sound is made by one hand clapping, do you?' said the holy man nastily.
YES. CL. THE OTHER HAND MAKES THE AP.
(Soul Music)
Smoke was coming out of the stricken piano. The Librarian's hands were
walking through the keys like Casanunda in a nunnery.
(Soul Music)
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite
ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
(Soul Music)
Never age. Never die. Live for ever in that one last white-hot moment, when the crowd screamed. When every note was a heartbeat. Burn across the sky.
You will never grow old. They will never say you died.
(Soul Music)
It is said that whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In
fact, whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of
a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side.
It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.
(Soul Music)
'I'm a raven, aren't I?' it said. 'One of the few birds who speak. The first thing people say is, oh, you're a raven, go on, say the N word... If I had a penny for every time that's happened, I'd-'
(Soul Music)
'(...) And the Patrician has been ironical at me,' said Mr. Clete. 'I'm not having that again.'
(Soul Music)
“Yes," said the skull. "Quit while you're a head, that's what I say.”
(Soul Music)