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“How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.”
“I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.”
“Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.”
“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.”
“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”
“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
“History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to...”
“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”
“And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agno...”
“Practically anything can go faster than Disc light, which is lazy and tame, unlike ordinary light. The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly...”
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of...”
“Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"Mort thought for a moment."No," he said eventually, "what?"There was silence.Then Albert straightened up and said, "Dam...”
“And he goes around killing people? said Mort. He shook his head. Theres no justice.Death sighed. No, he said... theres just me.”
“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”
