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  1. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING." WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    ... and all those frogs going 'Rabbit, rabbit'...""I think, sir, that it was 'Ribbit, ribbit'...""So, what goes 'Rabbit, rabbit'?""Rabbits, I think. All the time...
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-'The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn't the kind of logic you'd use around midday.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.**Not why is it . Just why it is.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Now ," snapped the Dean, "we've searched for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all."
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.
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