“So much universe, and so little time.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day, but set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”
“If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
“When in doubt, choose to live.”
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
“And what would humans be without love? RARE, said Death.”
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”
“Given enough coffee I could rule the world.”
“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
“Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.”
“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
“Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility.”
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
“There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”
“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.”
“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
“Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.”
“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?”
“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.”
“Things just happen. What the hell.”
“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.”
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
“Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.”
“Everything is a test.”
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
“Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.”
“The harder I work, the luckier I become.”
“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
“Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.”
“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
“Of course I’m sane, when trees start talking to me, I don’t talk back.”
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”
“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.”
“She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.”
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