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“Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.”
“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.”
“It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.”
“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”
“For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been ne...”
“All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.”
“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
“Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!”
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where t...”
“His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.”
“Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and deligh...”
“Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
“On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.”
“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”
“There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a number of hells for liars. There was probably a hell for little boys who wished their grandmothe...”
“Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”“Sir?”“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”“Sir?”“That’s prac...”
