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“If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Going Postal

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“Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ.

—Death”

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Terry Pratchett buch Mort

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“You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Monstrous Regiment

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“It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Hogfather

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“Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?”

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Terry Pratchett buch Witches Abroad

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“Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed… politely. pommes frites”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Wee Free Men

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“Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Last Continent

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“Do you know how wizards like to be buried?"
"Yes!"
"Well, how?"
Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.
"Reluctantly.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Equal Rites

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“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Wyrd Sisters

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“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”

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Terry Pratchett buch Snuff

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“WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?

The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.

Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Truth

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“Lessee… he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Guards! Guards!

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“The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Wee Free Men

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“It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Witches Abroad

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“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Snuff

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“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Fifth Elephant

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“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Pyramids

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