Oamenii! Traiau intr-o lume in care iarba continua sa fie verde, soarele rasarea in fiecare zi si florile se transformau in fructe si pe ei ce ii impresiona? Statuile care plangeau. Si vinul facut din apa! Un simplu efect tunel cuantic care s-ar fi intamplat oricum daca ai fi fost pregatit sa astepti un catralion de ani. De parca transformarea luminii soarelui in vin, prin intermediul vitelor si a strugurilor, al timpului si al enzimelor nu era de o mie de ori mai impresionanta si se intampla tot timpul.


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Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for th...
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Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wron...
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If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged
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Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of ...
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Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kiddin...
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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood ha...
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Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'...
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We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
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Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"
Mort thought for...
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He's bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.

In this he was echoing the P...
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Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great Go...
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'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of ...
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Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained...
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No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world m...
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And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.
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That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is trut...
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Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant...
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Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly awar...
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The living often don’t appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are dead, because while...
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Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!
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I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard...
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The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the...
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We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we...
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I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal...
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The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for ...
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Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising a...
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My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
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You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know tha...
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He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouti...
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Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It&#...
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My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage...
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And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
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Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One...
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I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You'r...
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But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
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Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's on...
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She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain th...
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My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage...
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There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the wo...
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Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a ...
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Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.
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The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
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Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.
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Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never f...
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There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.
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Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen...
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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
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The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.
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In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this ...
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The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ...
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t...
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I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i...
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ...
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Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w...
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At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a...
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
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I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ...
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle...
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She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ...
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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...
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Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ...
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Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ...
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The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ...
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Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
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Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af...
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Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ...
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso...
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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ...
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Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti...
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Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo...
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ar...
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"Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary...
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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ...
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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ...
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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul...
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An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ...
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then...
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For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ...
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Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l...
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In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
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The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh...
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