“Emberella," thought Magrat. ”I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like
something you put up in the rain."
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“Emberella," thought Magrat. ”I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like
something you put up in the rain."
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Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Yabi was
cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched
turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a
mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically
dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods
later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Yabi are renowned
for being remarkably short and bad-tempered.
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Mirrors contain infinity.
Infinity contains more things than you think.
Everything, for a start.
Including hunger.
Because there's a million billion images, but only one soul to go around.
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“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people
can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.”
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Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
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Magrat was annoyed. She was also frightened, which made her even more
annoyed. It was hard for people when Magrat was annoyed. It was like being
attacked by damp tissue.
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The wages of sin is death, but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.
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Greebo's technique was unscientific and wouldn't have stood a chance
against any decent swordmanship, but on his side was the fact that
it is almost impossible to develop decent swordmanship when you seem
to have run into a food mixer that is biting your ear off.
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- "'S called the Vieux River."
- "Yes?"
- "Know what that means?"
- "No."
- "The Old (Masculine) River," said Nanny.
- "Yes?"
- "Words have sex in foreign parts," said Nanny hopefully.
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'Good and bad is tricky, she [Esme] said. 'I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face.'
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[...] what was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness.
But half-way between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge... maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.
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She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human.
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'And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no-one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire.'
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In Genua, stories came to life. In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true.
Remember some of your dreams?
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The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold
that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul.
They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant
duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent
people.
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Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but
were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of
squabble.
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The only way housework could be done in this place was with a shovel or,
for preference, a match.
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The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.
And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because -- what with trolls and
dwarfs and so on -- speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived
in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
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