A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.


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All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...
TERRY PRATCHETT
There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
TERRY PRATCHETT
[And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv...
TERRY PRATCHETT
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...
TERRY PRATCHETT
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS
I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK
Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh...
TERRY ANDERSON
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ...
TERRY WAITE
When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.
TERRY BRADSHAW
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ...
TERRY ORLICK
What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
TERRY BRADSHAW
A mistake is a Buddhist gift. Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams.
TERRY GILLIAM
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b...
TERRY SOUTHERN
’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
TERRY PRATCHETT
This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
TERRY PRATCHETT