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    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: humor, proverb
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    Terry Pratchett
    “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
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    tags: death, humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
    tags: cats, death, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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    Terry Pratchett
    “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
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
    tags: books, humor
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “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
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    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
    tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
    tags: humor, life, movies
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A sabedoria é uma das poucas coisas que parecem maiores quanto mais longe estão.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
    tags: humor
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

    - Breeze”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: humor, remaining-silent, reticence
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
    tags: humor, science
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: storytelling
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
    Breeze: For two hours?
    Elend: There were books involved.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: books, humor
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
    tags: dalinar, sacrifice, victory
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
    "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: honor, integrity, moral-courage
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire
    tags: kelsier
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