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Lord Vetinari in a meeting: “what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. Th...more

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A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

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The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a soul with, e.g., red-hot tweezers, because even f...more

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WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

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Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when t...more

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You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell.

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I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be doin’ it all the time.”“It’s all right if you’re r...more

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Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite a few things in common with Hell. You co...more

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Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmi...more

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There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a number of hells for liars. There was probably a h...more

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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes...more

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It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop th...more

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It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop th...more