Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese

Terry Pratchett era scrittore e glottoteta britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Pyramids

Origine: Pyramids

“There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Feet of Clay

Origine: Feet of Clay

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Men at Arms

Origine: Men at Arms

“Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Guards! Guards!

Origine: Guards! Guards!

“Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.”

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

“Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!”

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Terry Pratchett libro Making Money

Origine: Making Money

“The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.”

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Origine: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Them as can do, has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Wee Free Men

Variante: Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.
Origine: The Wee Free Men

“Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Origine: Night Watch

“That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Origine: Night Watch

“One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.”

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

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Unseen Academicals

Origine: Unseen Academicals

“And then there was the headless horseman!" said Tiffany. "He had no head!"
"Well, that is the major job qualification," said the toad.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Wee Free Men

Origine: The Wee Free Men

“You're not going to die, are you sir?' he said.
'Of course I am. Everyone is. That's what being alive is all about.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Sourcery

Truckers, Ch. 7
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Origine: Sourcery

“And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!”

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Terry Pratchett libro Tartarughe divine

Origine: Small Gods

“Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Nation

Origine: Nation

“Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Last Continent

Origine: The Last Continent

“No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”

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“Just because you’re a zombie doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Night Watch