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Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
Terry Pratchett
Usually he didn't bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.
Terry Pratchett
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Terry Pratchett
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
Terry Pratchett
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.
Terry Pratchett
On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.
Terry Pratchett
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Based on Keywords: atoll, beaks, lagoon, rimward, tentacles, wave-rocked
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(About Death & Dying, Faces)
Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death.
("The Color of Magic")
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Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
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Usually he didn't bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.
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You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Terry Pratchett
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
Terry Pratchett
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.
Terry Pratchett
On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.
Terry Pratchett
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