Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese

Terry Pratchett era scrittore e glottoteta britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

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Terry Pratchett

Origine: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lords and Ladies

Origine: Lords and Ladies

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Wyrd Sisters

Origine: Wyrd Sisters

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Thief of Time

Origine: Thief of Time

“What is magic?
There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lords and Ladies

Origine: Lords and Ladies

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Going Postal

Origine: Going Postal

“Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Hogfather

Origine: Hogfather

“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.

(Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate…)”

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Terry Pratchett libro Moving Pictures

Origine: Moving Pictures

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Making Money

Origine: Making Money

“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Wyrd Sisters

Origine: Wyrd Sisters

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

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Terry Pratchett libro A Hat Full of Sky

Origine: A Hat Full of Sky

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Pyramids

Origine: Pyramids

“Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Witches Abroad

Origine: Witches Abroad

“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Carpe Jugulum

Origine: Carpe Jugulum

“Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.”

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Origine: The Color of Magic

“… the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Light Fantastic

Origine: The Light Fantastic

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Origine: Mort

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

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Origine: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“But this didn'tlike magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.”

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Terry Pratchett libro All'anima della musica!

Origine: Soul Music