Terry Pratchett: Frases en inglés

Terry Pratchett era escritor británico de fantasía y ciencia ficción. Frases en inglés.
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“And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch.
And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?”

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Terry Pratchett libro The Wee Free Men

Fuente: The Wee Free Men

“But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?”

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Terry Pratchett libro Making Money

Fuente: Making Money

“Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.”

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Terry Pratchett libro El segador

Fuente: Reaper Man

“Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?”

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Terry Pratchett libro Guards! Guards!

Fuente: Guards! Guards!

“Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Jingo

Fuente: Jingo

“[Rincewind] drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.”

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Fuente: The Color of Magic

“Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it…”

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Terry Pratchett libro Monstrous Regiment

Fuente: Monstrous Regiment

“Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?"
"'cos they torture people.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Night Watch

Fuente: Night Watch

“But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.”

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Terry Pratchett The Long Earth

Fuente: The Long Earth

“You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.”

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Terry Pratchett libro La corona de hielo

Fuente: Wintersmith

“No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to the evolutionary ladder.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Thief of Time

Fuente: Thief of Time

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Thief of Time

Fuente: Thief of Time

“There was no light at the end of the tunnel--or if there was, it was an oncoming train.”

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Variante: He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Fuente: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.

When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.”

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Terry Pratchett libro El segador

Fuente: Reaper Man

“Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Soul Music

Fuente: Soul Music

“I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT?”

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Terry Pratchett libro Mort

Fuente: Mort

“I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future."
THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death.
"What does it contain, then?"
ME.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Rechicero

Fuente: Sourcery

“Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Small Gods

Fuente: Small Gods

“His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.”

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Terry Pratchett libro Guards! Guards!

Fuente: Guards! Guards!