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  1. Terry Pratchett _ A Blink of the Screen:

    I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.''Think I don't know that?''What did you start out to get, Esme?'Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ A Blink of the Screen:

    Firstly," said Ponder, "Mr Pessimal wants to know what we do here.""Do? We are the premier college of magic!" said Ridcully."But do we teach?""Only if no alternative presents itself," said the Dean. "We show 'em where the library is, give 'em a few little chats, and graduate the survivors. If they run into any problems, my door is always metaphorically open.""Metaphorically, sir?" said Ponder."Yes. But technically, of course, it's locked.""Explain to him that we don't do things, Stibbons," said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. "We are academics.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ A Blink of the Screen:

    ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS.
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