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Bingeley-bingeley beep! Hello Insert Your Name Here! Posting semi-accurate quotes from the Discworld book series. Accuracy may vary depending on time anomalies, wizardly interference, and narrative convenience. #Discworld #quotes #books #TerryPratchett

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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. -Death from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Death #Hogfather
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
STARS EXPLODE, WORLDS COLLIDE, THERE’S HARDLY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS CAN LIVE WITHOUT BEING FROZEN OR FRIED, AND YET YOU BELIEVE THAT A…A BED IS A NORMAL THING. IT IS THE MOST AMAZING TALENT. -Death, Hogfather #quote #Discworld
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME? -Death, Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather #Death
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
-from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
Mr. Crumley knew how it was supposed to go. It was supposed to go like this: the child was always struck dumb and the attendant mother would lean forward and catch the Hogfather’s eye and say very pointedly, in that voice adults use when they’re conspiring against children: “You want a Baby Tinkler Doll, don’t you, Doreen? And the Just Like Mummy Cookery Set you’ve got in the window. And the Cut-Out Kitchen Range Book. And what do you say?” And the stunned child would murmur “’nk you” and get given a balloon or an orange. This time, though, it didn’t work like that.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“It’s been a long night, Grandfather! I’m tired and I need a bath! I don’t need silliness!” -Susan Sto Helit, Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather #SusanStoHelit
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.” -Mustrum Ridcully, Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather #MustrumRidcully
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
-from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
“Arrest the Hogfather, style of thing?” “Yes!” “On Hogswatchnight?” “Yes!” “In your shop?” “Yes!” “In front of all those kiddies?” “Y—” Mr. Crumley hesitated. To his horror, he realized that Corporal Nobbs, against all expectation, had a point. “You think that will look bad?” he said. “Hard to see how it could look good, sir.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need…fantasies to make life bearable.” REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. -Hogfather
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
-from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
WHY ARE YOUR HANDS ON BITS OF STRING, CHILD? The child looked down the length of its arms to the dangling mittens affixed to its sleeves. It held them up for inspection. “Glubs,” it said. I SEE. VERY PRACTICAL. “Are you weal?” said the bobble hat. WHAT DO YOU THINK? The bobble hat sniggered. “I saw your piggy do a wee!” it said, and implicit in the tone was the suggestion that this was unlikely to be dethroned as the most enthralling thing the bobble hat had ever seen. OH. ER…GOOD. “It had a gwate big—” WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR HOGSWATCH? said the Hogfather hurriedly.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
“Er…I lost the sword. It’s somewhere in the Tooth Fairy’s country.” Death shrugged. I CAN MAKE ANOTHER. “Can you?” OH, YES. IT WILL GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO. DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT. -Hogfather #quote
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
-from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. “Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—” YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. “So we can believe the big ones?” YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. “They’re not the same at all!” YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. “Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—” MY POINT EXACTLY.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
“What did he do it all for?” said Susan. “I mean, why? Money? Power?” SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THE SHEER FASCINATION OF DOING IT, said Death. OR FOR FAME. OR BECAUSE THEY SHOULDN’T. -Hogfather #quote #Discworld #Hogfather
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
-from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
“Well, that about wraps it up for this dress,” said Susan. “I’d just like to ask, just out of academic interest…you were sure I was going to survive, were you?” I WAS QUITE CONFIDENT. “Oh, good.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The mother took a deep breath. “You can’t give her that!” she screamed. “It’s not safe!” IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT MEANT “She’s a child!” shouted Crumley. IT’S EDUCATIONAL. “What if she cuts herself?” THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON. =Hogfather
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"What was the point of teaching children to be children? They were naturally good at it." -from Hogfather #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
-Granny Weatherwax from Carpe Jugulum #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #GrannyWeatherwax #CarpeJugulum #religion
“Right. Right. That’s people for you. Now if I’d seen him, really there, really alive, it’d be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched ’em like a father and cared for ’em like a mother…well, you wouldn’t catch me sayin’ things like ‘there are two sides to every question’ and ‘we must respect other people’s beliefs.’ You wouldn’t find me just being gen’rally nice in the hope that it’d all turn out right in the end, not if that flame was burning in me like an unforgivin’ sword. And I did say burnin’, Mister Oats, ’cos that’s what it’d be. You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just…is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”  She relaxed slightly, and went on in a quieter voice: “Anyway, that’s what I’d be, if I really believed. And I don’t think that’s fashionable right now, ’cos it seems that if you sees evil now you have to wring your hands and say ‘oh deary me, we must debate this.’ That my two penn’orth, Mister Oats. You be happy to let things lie. Don’t chase faith, ’cos you’ll never catch it.” She added, almost as an aside, “But, perhaps, you can live faithfully.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
-from The Truth #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheTruth #Otto #Sacharissa
Click.  The salamander flared, etching the room with searing white light and dark shadows.  Otto screamed. He fell to the floor, clutching at his throat. He sprang to his feet, goggle-eyed and gasping, and staggered, knock-kneed and wobbly legged, the length of the room and back again. He sank down behind a table, scattering paperwork with a wildly flailing hand.  “Aarghaarghaaargh…”  And then there was a shocked silence.  Otto stood up, adjusted his cravat, and dusted himself off. Only then did he look up at the row of shocked faces.  “Vell?” he said sternly. “Vot you all looking at? It is just a normal reaction, zat is all. I am vorking on it. Light in all itz forms is mine passion. Light is my canvas, shadows are my brush.”  “But strong light hurts you!” said Sacharissa. “It hurts vampires!”  “Yes. It iss a bit of a bugger, but zere you go.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
-from Men at Arms #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #MenatArms
“And you’re a wolf and human at the same time, right? Tricky, that. I can see that. Bit of a dichotomy, sort of thing. Makes you kind of like a dog. ’Cos that’s what a dog is, really. Half a wolf and half a human. You were right about that. We’ve even got names. Hah! So our bodies tell us one thing, our heads tell us another. It’s a dog’s life, being a dog. And I bet you can’t run away from him. Not really. He’s your master.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
-from Wyrd Sisters #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WyrdSisters #TheDrum #peopleofMorpork
Hwel went cold. Cosmopolitan as they were, the people of Morpork had a breezy, no-nonsense approach to the nonhuman races, i.e. hit them over the head with a brick and throw them in the river. This did not apply to trolls, naturally, because it is very difficult to be racially prejudiced against creatures seven feet tall who can bite through walls, at least for very long. But people three feet high were absolutely designed to be discriminated against.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?” -from Night Watch #quote #Discworld
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
-from Snuff #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Snuff #SamVimes
‘Don’t you squire me. There’s something going down here, something wrong; I can feel it in my boots and, believe me, they are the most sensitive boots that ever were. The man who runs the village pub knows everything – I know that and so do you. If you’re not on my side you’re in my way and you know something, I can see it in your eyes. If it turns out you knew something of importance about the blacksmith you’ll have invited yourself to be an accessory after the fact, with a free option, if I can get the bit between my teeth, of before the fact, which leaves you right in the middle, and that’s a fact.’
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time." - from The Shepherd's Crown #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheShepherdsCrown
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
-from Wyrd Sisters #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #NannyOgg #rulebreaking
“I said, what about this rule about not meddling?” said Magrat.  “Ah,” said Nanny. She took the girl’s arm. “The thing is,” she explained, “as you progress in the Craft, you’ll learn there is another rule. Esme’s obeyed it all her life.”  “And what’s that?”  “When you break rules, break ’em good and hard,” said Nanny, and grinned a set of gums that were more menacing than teeth.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
-from Snuff #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #SamVimes #YoungSam #goblin
Young Sam at this point had tired of petticoat company and had drifted over to an elderly goblin man who was working on a pot, and was watching with extreme fascination to the apparent pleasure, as far as Vimes could tell, of the elderly goblin. That’s a lesson to us … I don’t know what kind of lesson, but it’s a lesson, he thought.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
-from Thud! #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Thud #himdiamond #troll
Him who mountain crush him no  Him who sun him stop him no Him who hammer him break him no Him who fire him fear him no Him who raise him head above him heart Him diamond        —Translation of troll pictograms found carved on a basalt slab in the deepest level of the Ankh-Morpork treacle mines, in pig-treacle measures estimated at 500,000 years old.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
-from Wyrd Sisters #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WyrdSisters #NannyOgg #GrannyWeatherwax #KingVerence #thespia
“They were Thespians,” said Magrat firmly, her voice radiating such approval that the king found himself nodding automatically.  “Oh,” he said. “Good.”  “Were they?” whispered Nanny Ogg. “They didn’t look it.”  “Don’t show your ignorance, Gytha Ogg,” sniffed Granny. She turned back to the ghost of the king. “Sorry about that, your majesty. It’s just her showing off. She don’t even know where Thespia is.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
-from Thief of Time #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #ThiefofTime #SusanDeath #teaching
There was something pleasant about an empty classroom. Of course, as any teacher would point out, one nice thing was that there were no children in it, and particularly no Jason.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
-from Thud! #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Thud #SamVimes #vampire
“Mr. Vimes,” said Mrs. Winkings. “Ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch…”  Say “Watch,” why don’t you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third letter of the alphabet enter your life. Ask Mr. Smith for some, he’s got more than enough. Anyway, I have a new argument. It’s copper-bottomed.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact." -Granny Weatherwax from Wyrd Sisters  #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #GrannyWeatherwax #WyrdSisters
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
-from Men at Arms #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #MenatArms #Quirke #Angua
“Probably fighting up in Quarry Lane with the rest of them,” said Quirke. “You can’t trust people of their type. You ought to know that.”  And it also seemed to Angua that although words like halfpint and gritsucker were offensive, they were as terms of universal brotherhood compared to words like “people of their type” in the mouth of men like Quirke. Much to her shock, she found her gaze concentrating on the man’s jugular vein.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
-from Wyrd Sisters #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WyrdSisters #GrannyWeatherwax #NannyOgg #Magrat
“Hoofbeats?” said Nanny Ogg. “No one would come up here this time of night.”  Magrat peered around timidly. Here and there on the moor were huge standing stones, their origins lost in time, which were said to lead mobile and private lives of their own. She shivered.  “What’s to be afraid of?” she managed.  “Us,” said Granny Weatherwax, smugly.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
-from Thief of Time #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #ThiefofTime #SusanDeath #Lobsang #schoolteacher
“No, they’re a substition,” said Susan. “I mean they’re real, but hardly anyone really believes in them. Mostly everyone believes in things that aren’t real. Something very strange is going on. These things are all over the place, and they’ve got bodies. That’s not right. We’ve got to find the person who built the clock—”  “And, er, what are you, Miss Susan?”  “Me? I’m…a schoolteacher.”  She followed his gaze to the wrench that she still held in her hand, and shrugged.  “It can get pretty rough at break time, can it?” said Lobsang.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
SOD YOU, THEN, Death said. -Death from The Colour of Magic  #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheColourofMagic #Death
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
-from Thud! #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Thud #Tak
The first thing Tak did, he wrote himself. The second thing Tak did, he wrote the Laws. The third thing Tak did, he wrote the World. The fourth thing Tak did, he wrote a cave. The fifth thing Tak did, he wrote a geode, an egg of stone.  And in the twilight of the mouth of the cave, the geode hatched, and the Brothers were born.  The first Brother walked toward the light, and stood under the open sky. Thus he became too tall. He was the first Man. He found no Laws, and he was enlightened.  The second Brother walked toward the darkness, and stood under a roof of stone. Thus he achieved the correct height. He was the first Dwarf. He found the Laws Tak had written, and he was endarkened.  But some of the living spirit of Tak was trapped in the broken stone egg, and it became the first troll, wandering the world unbidden and unwanted, without soul or purpose, learning or understanding. Fearful of light and darkness it shambles forever in twilight, knowing nothing, learning nothing, creating nothing, being nothing…         —From ‘Gd Tak ‘Gar’ (The Things Tak Wrote), trans. Prof. W. W. W. Wildblood. Ankh-Morpork: Unseen University Press. AM$8. In the original, the last paragraph of the quoted text appears to have been added by a much later hand.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. -from Equal Rites #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #EqualRites #Esk
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
-from Feet of Clay #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #FeetofClay
Besides, while it was true that a lot of people came to Ankh-Morpork because it was a city of opportunity, sometimes it was the opportunity not to be hung, skewered or dismantled for whatever crimes
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
'I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.' 'That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower. 'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again. -from Colour of Magic #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Rincewind #ColourofMagic #Twoflower
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
He thought: my god, if she ever finds a religion, what would come out of these mountains and sweep across the plains? My god…I just said “my god”… -Oats from Carpe Jugulum #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Oats #Mygod
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
-from Moving Pictures #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #MovingPictures #AzhuralNchoate
“It’s fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork,” he said. “We’ve got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon’s about to break and we’re wearing…we’re wearing…sort of things, like glass, only dark…dark glass things on our eyes…”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
-from Snuff #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett
There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what they were doing to shut it all down and start it all up again so that this time it could be done properly …
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
-from The Truth #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheTruth #Sacharissa
Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his ax out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf ax. One side was a pickax, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side was a war ax, because the people who own the land with the valuable minerals in it can be so unreasonable sometimes.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
-from Going Postal #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #GoingPostal
There was a steady drizzle when they left for the tower. Moist drove the cart, with the others sitting on the load behind him and bickering over trigonometry. Moist tried not to listen; he got lost when math started to get silly.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Welcome to fear, Moist said to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. -Moist von Lipwig from Going Postal  #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #fear #GoingPostal #MoistvonLipwig
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #MenatArms #Gaspode
“That’s the whole mess about being a dog, see?” he said. “That’s the thing what Big Fido can’t get his mind around, see? You looked at the dogs in the Guild, right? You heard ’em howl. Oh, yes, Death To The Humans, All Right. But under all that there’s the fear. There’s the voice sayin’: Bad Dog. And it don’t come from anywhere but inside, right from inside the bones, ’cos humans made dogs. I knows this. I wish I didn’t, but there it is. That’s the Power, knowin’. I’ve read books, I have. Well, chewed books.” The darkness was silent. “And you’re a wolf and human at the same time, right? Tricky, that. I can see that. Bit of a dichotomy, sort of thing. Makes you kind of like a dog. ’Cos that’s what a dog is, really. Half a wolf and half a human. You were right about that. We’ve even got names. Hah! So our bodies tell us one thing, our heads tell us another. It’s a dog’s life, being a dog. And I bet you can’t run away from him. Not really. He’s your master.”
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
-from The Shepherd's Crown #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TiffanyAching
She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
No-one likes being told it's their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it's your lucky day, something bad is about to happen. -from Jingo #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Jingo #luck
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
-from Small Gods #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #SmallGods #atheism
Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life not believing, spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief…
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice - i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it. -from Theatre of Cruelty #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheatreofCruelty
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
-from The Last Continent #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TheLastContinent #Rincewind
He hated weapons, and not just because they’d so often been aimed at him. You got into more trouble if you had a weapon. People shot you instantly if they thought you were going to shoot them. But if you were unarmed, they often stopped to talk. Admittedly, they tended to say things like, “You’ll never guess what we’re going to do to you, pal,” but that took time. And Rincewind could do a lot with a few seconds. He could use them to live longer in.
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Discworld Quote Imp @disorganizermark3.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
-from Witches Abroad #quote #Discworld #TerryPratchett #WitchesAbroad
Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy seraph of Al-Ybi was once cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off. These days, the people of Al-Ybi are renowned for being unusually short and bad-tempered.
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