Terry Pratchett: Zitate auf Englisch

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“They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.”

Quelle: Lords and Ladies

“I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said "You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm". At the time this was the last thing on my mind…”

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“He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine…”

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Terry Pratchett buch Das Licht der Phantasie

Quelle: The Light Fantastic

“… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Lords and Ladies

Quelle: Lords and Ladies

“And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Wintersmith

Quelle: Wintersmith

“You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes.
"You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly.
"Not where I'm aiming, sir.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Night Watch

Quelle: Night Watch

“Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!”

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Terry Pratchett buch Making Money

Quelle: Making Money

“Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.”

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“Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.”

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Terry Pratchett The Long Earth

Quelle: The Long Earth

“Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Wyrd Sisters

Quelle: Wyrd Sisters

“… William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Truth

Quelle: The Truth

“One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Small Gods

Quelle: Small Gods

“Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.”

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“It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Reaper Man

Quelle: Reaper Man

“The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.”

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Quelle: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Lords and Ladies

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“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Night Watch

Quelle: Night Watch

“Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Guards! Guards!

Quelle: Guards! Guards!

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Pyramids

Quelle: Pyramids

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Night Watch

Quelle: Night Watch