Terry Pratchett: Citations en anglais

Terry Pratchett était écrivain britannique. Citations en anglais.
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“But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?”

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Terry Pratchett livre Maskerade

Source: Maskerade

“Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway.”

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Terry Pratchett livre The Light Fantastic

Source: The Light Fantastic

“No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms

“He's probably their battle poet, too."
"You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?"
"No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy…. When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Les Ch'tits Hommes libres

Source: The Wee Free Men

“The second mouse gets the cheese!”

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Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.”

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

“Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

“You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. […] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

“He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

“It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Mortimer

Source: Mort

“The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“Cake is not the issue here.”

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Terry Pratchett livre The Last Continent

Source: The Last Continent

“Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Nation

Source: Nation

“The trouble with witches is that they’ll never run away from things they really hate.

And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.”

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Terry Pratchett livre Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad

“Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.”

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Terry Pratchett livre De bons présages

Source: Good Omens

“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, asthe darkness.”

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Source: The Color of Magic