Terry Pratchett Quotes About Good Omens
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All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
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Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.
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I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.
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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
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Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.
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His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
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God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
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Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
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She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel
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Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
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He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.
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Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
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The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
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Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
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One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.
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Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.
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She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.
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You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
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'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'
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Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.
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The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
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Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
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Jesus won't cut you off before you're through With him you won't never get a crossed line, And when your bill comes it'll all be properly itemised He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life. The phone line to the saviour's always free of interference He's in at any hour, day or night And when you call J-E-S-U-S you always call toll-free He's the telephone repairman on the switchboard of my life.
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People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
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If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
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