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”Make your own luck. Put on a show. If you fall, let them remember how you turned it into a dive.”

#TerryPratchett #MakingMoney
September 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

#TerryPratchett #MonstrousRegiment
September 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
”She gave him a wink which would have got a younger woman jailed.”

#TerryPratchett #MakingMoney
September 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
”When the storm came, it hit the hills like a hammer. No sky should hold as much snow as this, and because no sky could, the snow fell, fell in a wall of white.”

#TerryPratchett #Wintersmith
September 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.”

#TerryPratchett #GoingPostal
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“It's a monocle," said the captain. "It helps me see you, for which I am eternally grateful. I always say that if I had two I'd make a spectacle of myself.”

#TerryPratchett #MonstrousRegiment
September 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
”He was indeed not under arrest, but this was one of those civilized little arrangements: he was not under arrest, provided that he didn’t try to act like a man who was not under arrest.”

#TerryPratchett #MakingMoney
September 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“HAS IT NEVER STRUCK YOU THAT THE CONCEPT OF A WRITTEN NARRATIVE IS SOMEWHAT STRANGE? said Death.”

#TerryPratchett #Thud
September 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll have a pin.”

#TerryPratchett #GoingPostal
September 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“What does a man stand up to do, a woman sit down to do, and a dog lift its leg to do?” And then, when everyone was too embarrassed to answer, she’d triumphantly shriek “Shake hands!”

#TerryPratchett #MonstrousRegiment
September 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
”Because he was mad, but regrettably not all the time; he was a sort of hobby madman.”

#TerryPratchett #MakingMoney
September 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
”Although Miss Treason had skulls, she did not keep them in the scullery. It would have been quite amusing, though, if she did.”

#TerryPratchett #Wintersmith
September 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
”Home was where you had to feel safe. If you didn’t feel safe, it wasn’t home.”

#TerryPratchett #Thud
August 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”

#TerryPratchett #GoingPostal
August 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“Perhaps that's why men did it. You didn't do it to save duchesses, or countries. You killed the enemy to stop him killing your mates, that they in turn might save you...”

#TerryPratchett #MonstrousRegiment
August 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
”A year ago he’d asked Adora Belle Dearheart to be his wife, and she’d explained that, in fact, he was going to be her husband.”

#TerryPratchett #MakingMoney
August 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”

#TerryPratchett #SoulMusic
August 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Er… a giant rock fell out of the sky.” “Giant rocks can’t stay up in the sky, miss!” said Shawn. “I expect that’s why this one fell down, lad,” said Nanny briskly.“

#TerryPratchett #Wintersmith
August 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.“

#TerryPratchett #Thud
August 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
“There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.”

#TerryPratchett #GoingPostal
August 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“She collected silence like other people collected strings. But she had a way of saying nothing that said it all.”

#TerryPratchett #AHatFullOfSky
August 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!”

#TerryPratchett #MonstrousRegiment
August 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
“As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.”

#TerryPratchett #Jingo
August 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”

#TerryPratchett #TheWeeFreeMen
August 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“The Necrotelicomnicon was written by a Klatchian necromancer known to the world as Achmed the Mad, although he preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches.”

#TerryPratchett #MovingPictures
August 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM