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I see you're downvoted, but you're right. The lack of quotes around Death's words was characteristic. Death didn't "speak", his words just existed, imperial, in the narrative :)
That and the, well, rather more down-to-earth reasoning that his words were set in small caps and so were easily distinguishable from the rest of the text. I still wish I could speak in small caps.
Words to live by: "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 f…
That could be a Cave Johnson quote. "When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to inv…
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'He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.' - Terry Pratchett
If you're encased in copper, wet or not, you have a fair chance. The copper provides a conductive path around you that is better than through you. Lightning rods and their cables also get wet, and are touching the building, which is also wet.
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Still better than being at the age where everybody around you start dying.
and that is still better than being dead :)
‘Goodbye,’ Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. ‘It’s such an unpleasant word, isn’t it?’ QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn’t have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said. So, goodbye, Sir Terry; or at least let's hope it's just au revoir.
Interesting, etymologically. "Good bye" is a contraction of "God be with ye (you)", which isn't quite so abrupt. "Au revoir", literally, "until (we) see again". Similar to "Hasta manyana" (until later), or "bis später" (same), Spanish and German, or "zài jiàn" ("see (you) again", Mandarin Chinese) . Farewells (literally, "fare thee well", be well) in many languages share similar attributes.
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Question 1: Are you fairly determined to read them all? YES: start with The Colour of Magic at the beginning and work your way through NO / Not sure: Don't start at the beginning, as the first few books are weird and will put you off. Question 2: What sounds more fun to you, reading about Badass Witches, Badass Policemen or Badass Businessmen? Your respective starting points are Equal Rites , Guards! Guards! and The…
Mort is my go-to suggestion for a starter book. The Death books in general are pretty damn good.
Words to live by: "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 f…
This rathr sems to miss the point of Patchett's body of work as a selection.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett...
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Although Going Postal is the first Moist book, The Truth is the first "Industry" book and I think it's best of the lot. Going Postal is still great though (much better than the later industry ones).
Sorry, I was wrong. Good Omens is the collaboration.
Sorry, Sir Terry :(
Wen The Eternally Surprised: "… I know the answers to many questions. Ask me."
The apprentice gave him a bleary look. It was too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning. That was the only thing he currently knew for sure.
"Err… what does the master want for breakfast?"
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"Ah," he said. "One of the difficult ones."
Not many good quotes on LSpace, but Goodreads has many: http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/46982-thief-of-time.
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