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‘Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place…’ (Small Gods)
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@catsalad
"BUT YOU ARE A MACHINE. THINGS HAVE NO DESIRES. A DOORKNOB WANTS NOTHING, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A COMPLEX MACHINE.
+++ All Things Strive +++"
#terrypratchett Hogfather
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, ‘Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.’
(Guards Guards)
‘You are in favour of the common people?’ said Dragon mildly.
‘The common people?’ said Vimes. ‘They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit.’ (Feet of Clay)
Help! Looking for a high quality copy of the Nigel Planer version of Witches Abroad #discworld audiobook..
Those I've found so far sound terrible
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@nullagent
"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."
#terrypratchett Night Watch
‘Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?’
‘Yes,’ said the wizard bitterly, ‘us’.
(The Light Fantastic)
Terry Pratchett nailed it. This is an excerpt from "Going Postal." #terrypratchett #pterry #ethics #militantdecency
It’s a fact as immutable as the Third Law of Sod that there is no such thing as a good Grand Vizier.
(Pyramids)
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
“Anyway, if you stop tellin’ people it’s all sorted out afer they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. ”
(Good Omens)
“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
(Snuff)
Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them. (Lords and Ladies)
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Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3ll7wzpqx3k2a
Bluesky Social · Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)What an excellent excuse to give out 10 US Kindle copies of Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett. This is a book that teaches how you deal with fascism. And also, as below, tells you what evil is. I love this book.
#KindleBookGiveaway #GNUTerryPratchett
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Cached US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's FEET OF CLAY, over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3ll37brc44s2o
Bluesky Social · Sean Eric Fagan (@kithrup.bsky.social)Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's FEET OF CLAY, a Discworld novel, and I think it was the 4th or 5th that I read. I loved it. "Either All Days Are Holy Or None Are."
This is a mostly-acceptable entry point to DW.
#KindleBookGiveaway #GNUTerryPratchett
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Sorry, I've been watching #TerryPratchett !
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Night Watch (2002)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/5030…