sourcery quotes

“Today the city, tomorrow the world.”
"Tomorrow the world, and - " he calculated quickly, "on Friday the universe! Good, that leaves the weekend free..."
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“Quick, you must come with me, you're in great danger!”
"Why?"
"Because I'll kill you if you dont."
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“my mother ran away before I was born”.
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River water is incredibly pure - anything that has passed through so many kidneys must be.
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It wasn't blood in general he couldn't stand the sight of, it was just his
blood in particular that was so upsetting.
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...the complete carcass of a whole roast pig looked extremely aanoyed at the fact that someone had killed it without waiting for it to finish its apple...
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'Why?' he [Rincewind] said.
The world is going to end.
'What, again?'
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Rincewind's mind was operating at the speed of continental drift.
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'The gods,' he said. 'Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.'
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'Is it heroic to die like this?' said Conina.
'I think it is,' he said, 'and when it comes to dying, there's only one opinion that matters.'
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“What did it feel like?”
"Have you ever been bitten by a viper?"
"No."
"In that case you'll understand exactly what it felt like."
"hmmmm?"
"It wasnt like a snake bite at all."
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“I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet!” he hissed.
"I'm afraid of grounds."
"You mean heights," said Conina. "And stop being silly."
"I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!"
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...stones that were missing him by inches and in some cases, hitting him by kilograms.
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Silence filled the University in the same way that air fills a hole. Night spread across the Disk like plum jam, or possibly blackberry preserve.
But there would be a morning. There would always be another morning.
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...where his fall was broken by the floor.
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The shape of DNA, it is popularly said, owes its discovery to the chance sight of a spiral staircase when the scientist's mind was just at the right receptive temperature. Had he used the lift, the whole science of genetics might have been a good deal different. Although, possibly, quicker. And only licensed to carry fourteen people.
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They looked at each other with mutual. grudging admiration and unlimited mistrust, but at least it was a mistrust each of them felt he could rely on.
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The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than soap, and much more difficult to find...
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One of Rincewind's tutors said that 'to call his understanding of magical theory absymal is to leave no suitable world to describe his grasp of its practice.'
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No wizard would normally dream of giving a colleague a leg up unless it was in order to catch them on the hop.
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It became apparent that one reason why the Ice Giants were known as the Ice
Giants was because they were, well, giants. The other was that they were
made of ice.
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The point about being killed by magic was that it was much more inventive than, say, steel; there were all sorts of interesting new ways to die, and he couldn't put out of his mind the shapes he'd seen, just for an instant, before the wash of octarine fire had mercifully engulfed them.
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SOURCERERS MAKE THEIR OWN DESTINY. THEY TOUCH THE EARTH LIGHTLY.
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NOTHING IS FINAL. NOTHING IS ABSOLUTE. EXCEPT ME, OF COURSE. SUCH TINKERING WITH DESTINY COULD MEAN THE DOWNFALL OF THE WORLD. THERE MUST BE A CHANCE, HOWEVER SMALL. THE LAWYERS OF FATE DEMAND A LOOPHOLE IN EVERY PROPHECY.
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'It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.'
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“I cant swim.”
"Not a stroke?"
"About how deep is the sea here, would you say?"
"About a dozen fathoms I believe."
"Then I could probably swim about a dozen fathoms, whatever they are."
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He looked sideways into the leering faces of men who would kill him sooner than think , and in fact would find it a lot easier.
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Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water
was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys,
they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
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He was staring fixedly at his finger, holding it out at arm's length in a manner that suggested he was very sorry he hadnt got longer arms.
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It wasnt lost. It always knew exactly where it was. It was always HERE. It was just that everything else seemed to have been temporarily mislaid.
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