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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal."
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
There was a sudden silence from the combo in the smoke. One of the trolls picked up a small rock and started to pound it gently, producing a slow, sticky rhythm that clung to the walls like smoke. And from the smoke, Ruby emerged like a galleon out of the fog with a ridiculous feather boa around her neck. It was continental drift with words. She began to sing.The trolls stood in respectful silence. After a while Victor heard a sob. Tears were rolling down Rock's face."What's the song about?" he whispered. Rock leaned down."Is ancient folklorique troll song," he said. "Is about Amber and Jasper. They were-" he hesitated, and waved his hands about vaguely. "Friends. Good friends?""I think I know what you mean," said Victor. "And one day Amber takes her troll's dinner down to the cave and finds him-" Rock waved his hands in vague yet thoroughly descriptive motions "-with another lady troll. So she go home and get her club and come back and beat him to death, thump, thump, thump. 'Cos he was her troll and he done her wrong. Is very romantic song.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?" said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. "It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it's even possible to find out.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
Can you swim?" said Victor. One of the cavern's rotting pillars crashed down behind them. From the pit itself came a terrible wailing. "Not very well," said Ginger. "Me neither," he said. The commotion behind them was getting worse. "Still," he said, taking her hand. "We could look on this as a great opportunity to improve really quickly.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
According to the history books, the decisive battle that ended the Ankh-Morpork Civil War was fought between two handfuls of bone-weary men in a swamp early one misty morning and, although one side claimed victory, ended with a practical score of Humans 0, ravens 1,000, which is the case with most battles.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
Believe it. That was the way. Never stop believing. Fool the eye, fool the brain.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants.
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Terry Pratchett _ Moving Pictures
Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it.
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