The Truth (Discworld, #25; Industrial Revolution, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

Indeed, the very concept of letters having their own physical existence is, philosophically, extremely worrying.

Three “indeeds” used by a person in one brief speech generally meant an internal spring was about to break.

“Words are too important to be left to machinery.

But words that can be taken apart and used to make other words . . . well, that’s downright dangerous.

“A civilization runs on words, Your Reverence. Civilization is words.

The dog in front of William didn’t look as if it could talk, but it did look as if it could swear.

William grabbed her as gently as he could, because this was the kind of laughter you died of.

Privilege just means ‘private law.’

Lord de Worde used words with a tone and a volume that made them as good as fists, but he’d never used actual violence.

Because nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.