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Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork.
WITCHES ARE MATRILINEAL, said Death. THEY FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO CHANGE MEN THAN TO CHANGE NAMES.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Miss Susan had privately marked him down as Boy Most Likely To Be Killed One Day By His Wife.
For it is written: ‘I can’t be having with that kind of a thing.’
Igor was increasingly ill at ease with someone so clearly stark, staring sane.
No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom.
Oh, there had always been droughts and locusts, but for a really good famine, for fertile land to be turned into a dust bowl by stupidity and avarice, you needed humans. Famine was arrogant.
Among the very worst words that can be heard by anyone high in the air, the pair known as “oh-oh” possibly combines the maximum of bowel-knotting terror with the minimum wastage of breath.
The Auditors had tried to understand religion, because so much that made no sense whatsoever was done in its name. But it could also excuse practically any kind of eccentricity. Genocide, for example.
The word SQUEAK manifested itself inside his brain without bothering to go via his ears.
“And the Angel clothéd all in white opened the Iron Book, and a fifth rider appeared in a chariot of burning ice, and there was a snapping of laws and a breaking of bonds and the multitudes cried ‘Oh God, we’re in trouble now!’”
Susan was sensible. It was, she knew, a major character flaw.
“Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you.”
The body craves the chocolate but the mind does not. At least . . .so I tell myself.
Wizards and philosophers had found Chaos, which is Kaos with his hair combed and a tie on, and had found in the epitome of disorder a new order undreamed of.
Fear, anger, envy . . .emotions bring you to life, which is a brief period just before you die.
“Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We’re-About-To-Commit-Today!
