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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.
You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.
I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.
If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.
You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.
Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)
Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?
The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.
Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.
Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!
Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.
A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.
There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.