Terry Pratchett: Citations en anglais

Terry Pratchett était écrivain britannique. Citations en anglais.
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“I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect”

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Terry Pratchett livre Les Ch'tits Hommes libres

Source: The Wee Free Men

“No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].”

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Terry Pratchett livre Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Mortimer

Source: Mort

“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”

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Terry Pratchett livre I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

“Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Snuff

Source: Snuff

“They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?”

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Terry Pratchett livre Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad (1991)

“I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.”

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Terry Pratchett livre I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”

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Foreword to The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1998) by David Pringle, ISBN 0-87951-937-1</small>, and The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy (2003) by David Pringle, <small> ISBN 1-84442-930-X
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“If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

“All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

“Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"
"Can't we do anything about it?"
"No!"
"Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.”

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Source: The Color of Magic

“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Les Ch'tits Hommes libres

Source: The Wee Free Men

“IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears."

Crowley leaned over to the angel. "Oh lord, heal this bike," he whispered sarcastically.

"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.”

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