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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    You didn't have to know Pilu for long to see that he floated through life like a coconut on the ocean. He always bobbed up. There was some sort of natural spring of cheerfulness that bubbled to the surface. Sadness was like a cloud across the sun, soon past. Sorrow was tucked away somewhere in his head, locked up in a cage with a blanket over it, like the captain's parrot.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    Some of the men and older boys were trained in firing the cannon, but since there wasn't any gun powder to spare for actually firing any more of the things, they made do with pushing wooden cartridges into the barrel and shouting, "Bang!" They got quite good at that, and were proud at the speed with which "Bang!" could be shouted. Daphne said she hoped the enemy would be trained to say "Aargh!
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    {...}And his head is on fire with new things{...}he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly two, if you like parrots.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    He'd missed dogs. Dogs added something that even people didn't, and one of the dogs was sitting by his feet, here in the darkness and the gentle rain. It wasn't bothered much about the rain or what might be out there on the unseen sea, but Mau was a warm body moving about in a sleeping world and might at any moment do something that called for runnung around and barking. Occasionally it looked up at him adoringly and made a slobbery gulping noise which possibly meant "Anything you say, boss!
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    Science is not interested in what stands to reason.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    She felt better for all that. A good shouting at somebody always makes you feel better and in control, especially if you aren't.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    The Universe isn't just a light show, they keep it running during the day too.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Nation

    It takes an unusual man to make up a hymn in a hurry, but such a man was Captain Roberts. He knew every hymn in and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny.
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