Being a long time reader, collector of Pratchett’s Discworld series, I kept an updated Word document with great funny and excellent quotes from all his books as I read them. 27 pages in length. There are so many wonderful ones. Here are some others:

‘Sausages! Hot sausages! Inna bun! Meat pies! Get them while they’re hot!’

My favorite aphorism comes from China:

What duck?

Damn I gotta read Pratchett.

Terry Pratchett was a gift from the gods (even the small ones). I adore his writing so much, and it’s such a comfort in difficult times.

From Small Gods

I’m kind of jealous of you! So many awesome books are awaiting you. I’m missing about 5 books right now, and then I will own all the novels. Going Postal is one of my all time favourites.

That boots quote changed my life. So this year I needed new winter boots (mine were literally splitting at the seams) and instead of going to Payless and spending as little as possible I wore my old boots a little bit longer, scrimped, and bought LL Bean boots instead. They have a lifetime guarantee and can be easily…

Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.- Sam Vimes, Night Watch

“There is a curse.

Thanks for this. A nice balm after all the shit of the past, what, it must have been two, days? Now I’ve got motivation to go enjoy a little escapism of my own, back in Discworld. I think I’ll start with Going Postal and Making Money. I think the Moist tales are some of my favorites.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute.

BLESS. I was thinking about the ‘stupid’ quote when listening to summations of the confirmation hearings today. So many people from wealth and privilege feign ignorance, when they have no right to it.

Honestly, the best best embodiment of that is Vimes. He is constantly warring with his darker side to do things properly, for the good of everyone.

Need to add the two I always come back to:

Just read the entirety of the Discworld series. Or better yet, Pratchett’s entire bibliography.

An exchange (not Discworld) that keeps popping into my head these days:

When I read the title, my first thought was, “Please, include the bit about learning to believe little lies to prepare us for the big lies.”

You bring this up now that we’ve got four years of Lord Snapcase to look forward to.