Do you need an excuse to have a war? I mean, who for? Can't you just say "You got lots of cash and land, but I've got a big sword, so divy up right now, chop chop"


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Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
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Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
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Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never f...
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There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.
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Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen...
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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
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The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this ...
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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ...
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t...
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I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i...
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ...
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Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w...
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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a...
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
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I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ...
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle...
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She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ...
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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...
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Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ...
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Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ...
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ...
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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
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Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af...
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Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ...
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso...
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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti...
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Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo...
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ar...
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"Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary...
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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ...
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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ...
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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul...
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An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ...
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then...
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ...
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Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l...
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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh...
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