Terry Pratchett: Frasi in inglese

Terry Pratchett era scrittore e glottoteta britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Witches Abroad

Origine: Witches Abroad

“Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.”

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Origine: The Color of Magic

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Witches Abroad

Origine: Witches Abroad

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Tartarughe divine

Origine: Small Gods

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Truth

Origine: The Truth

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Moving Pictures

Origine: Moving Pictures

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”

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Terry Pratchett libro A Hat Full of Sky

Origine: A Hat Full of Sky

“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”

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“Yes! I'm! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Wee Free Men

Origine: The Wee Free Men

“I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people”

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Terry Pratchett libro Guards! Guards!

Origine: Guards! Guards!

“Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Last Hero

Origine: The Last Hero

“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Johnny and the Bomb

Origine: Johnny and the Bomb

“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Wee Free Men

Origine: The Wee Free Men

“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Making Money

Origine: Making Money

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Origine: Mort

“… and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”

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Origine: The Bromeliad Trilogy

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Tartarughe divine

Origine: Small Gods

“Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Guards! Guards!

Origine: Guards! Guards!

“The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?”

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Terry Pratchett libro Monstrous Regiment

Origine: Monstrous Regiment

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Nation

Origine: Nation