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“A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?”

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Interview, quoted in "Words from the Master" http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html in The Annotated Pratchett File http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html General sources Kontext: As for The Mapp... I suspect it'll never get a US publication. It seemed to frighten US publishers. They don't seem to understand it. That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans: A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”

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“The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Witches Abroad

Quelle: Witches Abroad

“There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Small Gods

Quelle: Small Gods

“And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be
living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got
you invited to the very best social occasions.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Feet of Clay

Quelle: Feet of Clay

“I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Last Continent

Quelle: The Last Continent

“… the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Last Continent

Quelle: The Last Continent

“What're quantum mechanics?"

"I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Faust Eric

Quelle: Eric

“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Unseen Academicals

Quelle: Unseen Academicals

“Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Last Continent

Quelle: The Last Continent

“These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Faust Eric

Quelle: Eric

“Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Snuff

Quelle: Snuff

“(About sweeping)….
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Maskerade

Quelle: Maskerade

“On the fifth day the Governor of the town called all the tribal chieftains to an audience in the market square, to hear their grievances. He didn't always do anything about them, but at least they got heard, and he nodded a lot, and everyone felt better about it at least until they got home. This is politics.”

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Terry Pratchett buch The Carpet People

The Carpet People (1971; 1992)

“Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Only You Can Save Mankind

Only You Can Save Mankind (1992)

“AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.

The End.”

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Death

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

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Terry Pratchett buch Diggers

The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Variante: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Quelle: Diggers (1990)

“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.”

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Terry Pratchett buch A Hat Full of Sky

Quelle: A Hat Full of Sky

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

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“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

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