You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.


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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 ...
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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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