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Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage

They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as outline the darkness.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

And then there was the headless horseman! said Tiffany. He had no head! Well, that is the major job qualification, said the toad.

Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause? I'd much rather live quietly for one.

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn't trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

Under the table, Greebo sat and washed himself. Occasionally he burped. Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but never managed it from the cat.

As the eye of narrative drew back from the coffin on its stand, two things happened. One happened comparatively slowly, and this was Vargo's realisation that he never recalled the coffin having a pillow before. The other was Greebo deciding that he was as mad as hell and wasn't going to take it any more.

The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.

Here's what I suggest, he said. You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant." "No I ain't!

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Ankh-Morpork is a godless city--' 'I thought it had more than three hundred places of worship?' said Maladict. Strappi stared at him in rage that was incoherent until he managed to touch bottom again. 'Ankh-Morpork is a godawful city', he recovered.

with the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one.

Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

I'd better say at the start that I don't actually believe in magic any more than I believe in astrology, because I'm a Taurean and we don't go in for all that weirdo occult stuff.

My first novel was published by the first publisher I sent it to. And so I've been learning as I go, and I find it now rather embarrassing that people beginning the Discworld series start with The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, which I don't think are some of the best books to start with. This is the author saying this, folks. Do not start at the beginning with Discworld.

IT WON'T HURT, said Death. If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Vimes' glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronised Observation Team.