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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."
— Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

tags: death, humor
130 people liked it

"You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. "
— Terry Pratchett (The Color of Magic)

tags: dragons, maps
41 people liked it

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
221 people liked it

"I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee, here at the end of all things."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: friendship, frodo
55 people liked it

"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: adventure
488 people liked it

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: dumbledore
1,037 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,968 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,397 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,724 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,201 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,940 people liked it

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,294 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,077 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,686 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,899 people liked it

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

tags: activism
676 people liked it

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
547 people liked it

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

239 people liked it

"Being crazy isn't enough."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: crazy
497 people liked it

"They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it."
— Johnny Depp

48 people liked it

""Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibulism. It is looked down upon in most societies.""
— Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

60 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,146 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
813 people liked it

"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

71 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,546 people liked it

"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: fear, inspiration
1,106 people liked it

"There is no frigate like a good book to take us to lands away."
— Emily Dickinson

21 people liked it

"It's not about hair loss. It's about face GAIN. I hear the term, 'receding hairline'. I say, 'Expanding Facial Fronteir'. One day I might have a whole head of FACE."
— Sheng Wang

tags: appearance, humor, life, optimism
85 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,033 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,373 people liked it

"Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?'"
— Frank Zappa

tags: hair, humor
47 people liked it

"In a fight between yourself and the world, always side with the world."
— Frank Zappa

tags: world
5 people liked it

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
— Frank Zappa

tags: open-mind
102 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,967 people liked it

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

tags: humor
1,782 people liked it

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

542 people liked it

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: mind
331 people liked it

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
— Terry Pratchett

507 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
563 people liked it

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."
— Terry Pratchett

202 people liked it

"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
— Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

214 people liked it

"No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?"
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

tags: absurd, humor, interrogation, police
256 people liked it

"'It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you thought of going into teaching?'"
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

tags: discworld, humor, humour, teaching
157 people liked it

"I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humour, inspirational
102 people liked it

"Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"

Mort thought for a moment.

"No," he said eventually, "what?"

There was silence.

Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

88 people liked it

"And what would humans be without love?"

"Rare," said Death."
— Terry Pratchett (Sourcery)

121 people liked it

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

tags: books, humor
210 people liked it

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science
312 people liked it

"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

79 people liked it

"Insanity is catching."
— Terry Pratchett (Making Money)

tags: insanity
87 people liked it

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