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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    To be frank, I thought you were going to marry the princess.'Mort blushed. 'We talked about it,' he said. 'Then we thought, just because you happen to rescue a princess, you shouldn't rush into things.''Very wise. Too many young women leap into the arms of the first young man to wake them after a hundred years' sleep, for example.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    {T}he princesses were beautiful as the day is long and so noble they, they could pee through a dozen mattresses-
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    Mort remembered the woodcut in his grandmother's almanack, between the page on planting times and the phases of the moon section, showing Dethe thee Great Levyller Comes To Alle Menne. He'd stared at it hundreds of times when learning his letters. It wouldn't have been half so impressive if it had been generally known that the flame-breathing horse the specter rode was called Binky.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    Goodbye," Mort said, and was surprised to find a lump in his throat. "It's such an unpleasant word, isn't it?" QUITE SO. Death grinned because, as has so often been remarked, he didn't have much option. But possibly he meant it, this time. I PREFER AU REVOIR, he said.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    Look, how about this? Let's pretend we've had the row and I've won. See? It saves a lot of effort.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look."The Stealer of Souls," he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, "Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the-"ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    YOU TRIED TO WARN HIM, he said, removing Binky's nose-bag."Yes, sir. Sorry."YOU CANNOT INTERFERE WITH FATE. WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE WHO SHOULD LIVE AND WHO SHOULD DIE?Death watched Mort's expression carefully.ONLY THE GODS ARE ALLOWED TO DO THAT, he added. TO TINKER WITH THE FATE OF EVEN ONE INDIVIDUAL COULD DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?Mort nodded miserably."Are you going to send me home?" he said.Death reached down and swung him up behind the saddle.BECAUSE YOU SHOWED COMPASSION? NO. I MIGHT HAVE DONE IF YOU HAD SHOWN PLEASURE. BUT YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE."What's that?"A SHARP EDGE.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    Then there was the puzzle of why the sun came out during the day, instead of at night when the light would come in useful.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Mort

    Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
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