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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    The gods," he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    It didn't look like the kind of snow that whispers down gently in the pit of the night and in the morning turns the landscape into a glittering wonderland of uncommon and ethereal beauty. It looked like the kind of snow that intends to make the world as bloody cold as possible.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant about the sound of billions of very small feet hitting the stones in perfect time.Rincewind stepped gingerly over the marching column. The Librarian jumped it.The Luggage, of course, followed them with a noise like someone tapdancing over a bag of crisps.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    Talent just defines what you do," he said. "It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact it is considered opinion of some of his tutors that he is incapable even of achieving level zero, which most normal people are born at; to put it another way, it has been suggested that when Rincewind dies the average occult ability of the human race will actually go up by a fraction.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Sourcery

    They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.
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