Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese

Terry Pratchett era scrittore e glottoteta britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Origine: Mort

“Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?”
“Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Light Fantastic

Origine: The Light Fantastic

“That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul…. We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Wee Free Men

Origine: The Wee Free Men

“He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Origine: Mort

“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Raising Steam

Origine: Raising Steam

“I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!”

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“And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'
Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'
Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies… it’s just a word.”

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Origine: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Origine: Mort

“Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.
'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Tartarughe divine

Origine: Small Gods

“Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.”

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Terry Pratchett libro All'anima della musica!

Origine: Soul Music

“I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!
No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Nation

Origine: Nation

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Dodger

Origine: Dodger

“That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Raising Steam

Origine: Raising Steam

“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Il tristo mietitore

Origine: Reaper Man

“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.
It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Feet of Clay

Origine: Feet of Clay

“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”

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“Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's… well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-"
"Go for the throat”

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Terry Pratchett libro Carpe Jugulum

Origine: Carpe Jugulum

“Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lords and Ladies

Origine: Lords and Ladies