Terry Pratchett: Frases en inglés
Terry Pratchett era escritor británico de fantasía y ciencia ficción. Frases en inglés.Terry Pratchett libro Unseen Academicals
Fuente: Unseen Academicals
Terry Pratchett libro Thief of Time
Fuente: Thief of Time
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
Terry Pratchett libro El país del fin del mundo
General sources
Variante: It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. This is in fact true. It's called living.
Fuente: The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett libro Lores y damas
Fuente: Lords and Ladies
“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
Pratchett is credited as author of this, as quoted in Ghost Cats : Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (2007) by Dusty Rainbolt, p. 7, and in Chicken Soup for the Soul : What I Learned from the Cat (2009) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark
Quote attributed to unknown author, in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Cats : And the People Who Love Them (2004) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Sharon J. Wohlmuth, p. 1
General sources
Variante: In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods. They have never forgotten this.
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
Terry Pratchett libro Lores y damas
Fuente: Lords and Ladies
“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
Fuente: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Contexto: 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.
But it is true that in an interview I gave recently I did describe a sudden, distinct feeling I had one hectic day that everything I was doing was right and things were happening as they should.
It seemed like the memory of a voice and it came wrapped in its own brief little bubble of tranquillity. I'm not used to this.
As a fantasy writer I create fresh gods and philosophies almost with every new book … But since contracting Alzheimer's disease I have spent my long winter walks trying to work out what it is that I really, if anything, believe.
“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”
A similar remark was reportedly made by Pratchett in The Herald (4 October 2004): I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Contexto: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
Fuente: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Terry Pratchett libro A Hat Full of Sky
Variante: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Fuente: A Hat Full of Sky
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Terry Pratchett libro Going Postal
Fuente: Going Postal
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Terry Pratchett libro The Truth
Fuente: The Truth
Terry Pratchett libro Brujerías
Fuente: Wyrd Sisters