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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. This is why history keeps on repeating all the time.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    Greebo turned upon Granny Weatherwax a yellow-eyed stare of self-satisfied malevolence, such as cats always reserve for people who don't like them, and purred. Greebo was possibly the only cat who could snigger in purr.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    Nanny just tended to put a hot poultice on everything and recommend a large glass of whatever the patient liked best on the basis that since you were going to be ill anyway you might as well get some enjoyment out of it.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    People in chains had a tendency to look guilty.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    There's always the dwarf bread.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy," said Granny, glaring at the sky. "But you can't make 'em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin' their heads off as soon as they say 'I do', yes? You can't make happiness…" Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city. "All you can do," she said, "is make an ending.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    Granny Weatherwax looked out at the multi-layered, silvery world. "Where am I?" INSIDE THE MIRROR. "Am I dead?" THE ANSWER TO THAT, said Death, IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NO AND YES. Esme turned, and a billion figures turned with her. "When can I get out?" WHEN YOU FIND THE ONE THAT'S REAL. "Is this a trick question?" NO. Granny looked down at herself. "This one," she said.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    Genua had once controlled the rivermouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracybecause it was done by the city government, and therefore sound economicsand perfectly all right
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    All across the multiverse there are backward tribes* who distrust mirrors and images because, they say, they steal a bit of a person's soul and there's only so much of a person to go around. And the people who wear more clothes say this is just superstition, despite the fact that other people who spend their lives appearing in images of one sort or another seem to develop a thin quality. It's put down to over-work and, tellingly, over-exposure instead.*Considered backward, that is, by people who wear more clothes than they do.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Witches Abroad

    No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.
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