{"quotes":[{"text":"Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made things work, that gave the world its purpose. It was just that they were best avoided close up.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["gods","humor","science","terry-pratchett","wizards"],"id":12893,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["inspirational","life","terry-pratchett","tiffany-aching","truth","witches"],"id":15101,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.”“Sir?”“It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.”“Sir?”“That’s practically zen.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["discworld","feet-of-clay","prachett","sam-vimes","samuel-vimes","terry-pratchett","zen"],"id":20052,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["good-and-evil","inspirational","life-philosophy","night-watch","terry-pratchett"],"id":35798,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["evil","good","good-omens","neil-gaiman","terry-pratchett"],"id":58799,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["disc-world","fiction","going-postal","inspirational","marketing","terry-pratchett","tp"],"id":120522,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.","author":"Sully Tarnish","tags":["dragon","dragons","fantasy","humor","magic","terry-pratchett","tolkien","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":133293,"author_id":"Sully+Tarnish"},{"text":"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation—lettuce farming, say—would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?”Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged.“I’m good at it,” he said.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["color-of-magic","humour","lettuce-farming","terry-pratchett","work"],"id":146852,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to follow us, and doesn’t it just look as if they’re making notes and taking names? If you heard that one had bashed in someone’s head over in Quirm or somewhere, wouldn’t you just love to believe it? A voice inside, a voice which generally came to him only in the quiet hours of the night or, in the old days, half-way down a whiskey bottle, added: Given how we use them, maybe we’re scared because we know we deserve it….","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["golems","humans","terry-pratchett"],"id":159538,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["death","going-postal","greed","life","money","philosophy-religion","terry-pratchett"],"id":177770,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}