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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it...more

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you co...more

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It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

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...You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already be...more

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You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly.'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the ...more

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But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whol...more

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Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissivel...more

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A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

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Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’,...more

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.

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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's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

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IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.