Terry Pratchett: Frases en inglés

Terry Pratchett era escritor británico de fantasía y ciencia ficción. Frases en inglés.
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“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Hogfather

Fuente: Hogfather

“Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.”

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Fuente: Interesting Times: The Play

“… it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Ritos iguales

Fuente: Equal Rites

“Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Hogfather

Fuente: Hogfather

“She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Soul Music

Fuente: Soul Music

“Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Unseen Academicals

Fuente: Unseen Academicals

“Bursar?"
"Yes, Archchancellor?"
"You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?"
"Me? No, Archchancellor."
"Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lores y damas

Fuente: Lords and Ladies

“Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Small Gods

Fuente: Small Gods

“Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.”

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Fuente: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu… was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Lores y damas

Fuente: Lords and Ladies

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mascarada

Fuente: Maskerade

“Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.”

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Fuente: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“It was quite impossible to describe.

Here is what it looked like.

It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Rechicero

Fuente: Sourcery

“THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Fuente: Mort

“An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Fuente: Night Watch

“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used itadded the rider 'and that someone is me'.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Hogfather

Fuente: Hogfather

“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”

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“Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.”

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Fuente: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Small Gods

Fuente: Small Gods