Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)
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“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
Terry Pratchett
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The Last Continent
General sources
Variante: It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. This is in fact true. It's called living.
Origine: The Last Continent
“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
Pratchett is credited as author of this, as quoted in Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (2007) by Dusty Rainbolt, p. 7, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul : What I Learned from the Cat (2009) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
Quote attributed to unknown author, in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats : And the People Who Love Them (2004) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, p. 1
General sources
Variante: In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods. They have never forgotten this.
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
Terry Pratchett
libro
Lords and Ladies
Origine: Lords and Ladies
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Origine: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Contesto: There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
But it is true that in an interview I gave recently I did describe a sudden, distinct feeling I had one hectic day that everything I was doing was right and things were happening as they should.
It seemed like the memory of a voice and it came wrapped in its own brief little bubble of tranquillity. I'm not used to this.
As a fantasy writer I create fresh gods and philosophies almost with every new book … But since contracting Alzheimer's disease I have spent my long winter walks trying to work out what it is that I really, if anything, believe.
“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”
A similar remark was reportedly made by Pratchett in The Herald (4 October 2004): I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Contesto: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
Origine: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Terry Pratchett
libro
A Hat Full of Sky
Variante: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Origine: A Hat Full of Sky
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Terry Pratchett
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The Truth
Origine: The Truth
Interview, quoted in "Words from the Master" http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html in The Annotated Pratchett File http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html
General sources
Contesto: As for The Mapp... I suspect it'll never get a US publication. It seemed to frighten US publishers. They don't seem to understand it.
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans:
A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.