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CapedOwl
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26 May 2025, 8:29 pm

If you haven't read at least the best quotations of Terry Pratchett, you're missing out, IMHO :D :
Terry Pratchett Quotes

Do you have a favorite? Please post it, with optional comments as to why it resonates with you.

Here's one, for example (and perhaps it reminds you of someone you know?):

Quote:
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.

The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

- Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation


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01 Jul 2025, 5:00 pm

"There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides." (from "Guards, Guards!")



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02 Jul 2025, 6:40 am

Nice.

-> feedback on both:
- "the glass is twice as big as it needs to be." (George Carlin)
- "War does not determine who is right — only who is left" (anonymous author)

-> Now 2 of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes:

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
- A Hat Full of Sky

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
- Small Gods