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"I hope you're not proposing to enslave us,' said Twoflower.Marchesa looked genuinely shocked. 'Certainly not! Whatever could have given you that idea? Your lives in Krull will be rich, full and comfortable-''Oh, good,' said Rincewind.'-just not very long."
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"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."
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"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
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"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."
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"The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you."
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"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
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"If you see this guy drowning, do not stop him, it might be Peter trying to walk on water reaching Christ."
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"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."
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"If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story."
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"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."
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"Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value."
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"It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly."
Culture
"Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done."
Health
"Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple."
Humor
"The neck in front of her came up. The head swivelled 180 degrees and the horse looked at Kin with bright insectile eyes.'YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND,' it said inside Kin's head.'Hell!''THOSE ARE NOT MEANINGFUL CO-ORDINATES."
Fantasy
"Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought."
Perception
"Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring."
Society
"This book had two authors, and they were both the same person."
Creativity
"It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts."
Fantasy
"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
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"Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to."
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