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. Terry Pratchett More Quotes by Terry Pratchett More Quotes From Terry Pratchett William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. Terry Pratchett cooperation together men The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. Terry Pratchett rocks running funny You can’t say ‘if this didn’t happen then that would have happened’ because you don’t know everything that might have happened. You might think something’d be good, but for all you know it could have turned out horrible. You can’t say ‘If only I’d…’ because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you’ll never know. You’ve gone past. So there’s no use thinking about it. Terry Pratchett wish past thinking If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children. Terry Pratchett girl children people 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. Terry Pratchett space together book Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... Terry Pratchett fate prayer evil 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? Terry Pratchett done people way People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. Terry Pratchett stories people thinking You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. Terry Pratchett return views wonderful Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive. Terry Pratchett lasts alive might Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. Terry Pratchett chaos defeat order The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness. Terry Pratchett persuasion balance four If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. Terry Pratchett reading writing moving Divide by cucumber error. Please reinstall universe and reboot. Terry Pratchett discworld cucumbers errors In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett cat motivational inspirational All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things. Terry Pratchett evil book people Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. Terry Pratchett punctuation writing wonderful 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. Terry Pratchett female three mind This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. Terry Pratchett fast-lane traffic lanes I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari Terry Pratchett vetinari events lord
