TERRY PRATCHETT 

 

  Wobbler thought that California was where good people went when they died. , _Only You Can Save Mankind

 When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror. ,  _Small Gods

 The way of the portable computer user is as a stony path strewn with plugs and sockets, all the wrong size...

  The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. , _Small Gods_

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

 The trouble is that things *never* get better, they just stay the same, only more so. , _Eric_

 The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish. , _Small Gods_

 The thing about iron is that you generally don't have to think fast in dealing with it. , _Lords and Ladies_

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.  

Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home.  & Neil Gaiman, _Good Omens_

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded. , _Lords and Ladies_

He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat. , _Reaper Man_

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. , _Small Gods_

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. , _Small Gods_

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. ,

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

Bigmac's brother was reliably believed to be in the job of moving video recorders around in an informal way.  

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. , _Guards! Guards!_

 'You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.' , _Small Gods_

'Why do you bother with him? He's had thousands of people killed!' 'Yes, but perhaps he thought that you wanted it.'

'I'd like to know if I could compare you to a summer's day. Becausewell, June 12th was quite nice, and...' , _Wyrd Sisters_

 'If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.' , concerning popcorn, _Moving Pictures_

 'Right, you bastards, you're... you're geography.' ,  _Guards! Guards!_

 'That's right,' he said. 'We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.'  , _Small Gods_

 'You pay for it before you eat it? What happens if it's dreadful?' 'That's why.' , _Moving Pictures_

 

 

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