Terry Pratchett: Zitate auf Englisch

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“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

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Terry Pratchett

Quelle: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Lords and Ladies

Quelle: Lords and Ladies

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Wyrd Sisters

Quelle: Wyrd Sisters

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Thief of Time

Quelle: Thief of Time

“What is magic?
There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Lords and Ladies

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“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Going Postal

Quelle: Going Postal

“Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Hogfather

Quelle: Hogfather

“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.

(Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate…)”

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Terry Pratchett buch Moving Pictures

Quelle: Moving Pictures

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Making Money

Quelle: Making Money

“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Wyrd Sisters

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“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

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Terry Pratchett buch A Hat Full of Sky

Quelle: A Hat Full of Sky

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Pyramids

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“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Witches Abroad

Quelle: Witches Abroad

“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Carpe Jugulum

Quelle: Carpe Jugulum

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”

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Terry Pratchett

Quelle: The Color of Magic

“… the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Das Licht der Phantasie

Quelle: The Light Fantastic

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Mort

Quelle: Mort

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

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Terry Pratchett

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

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Soul Music

Quelle: Soul Music