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And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.

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There is never a bad time for a pun. There’s also never really a good time for a pun. You might as well just stay braced for a pun at all times, and r...more

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Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slammin...more

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You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck t...more

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I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

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He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course ...more

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Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. No...more

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What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as things". And right now it would happen if you thought...more

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Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

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Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

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And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but...more

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The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdo...more

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I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would be qu...more

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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other human...more

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Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.