Terry David John Pratchett

Discworld 20 - Hogfather

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  • Olha Nykorakhas quoted5 years ago
    “It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now—that’ll keep them going forever.”
  • Olha Nykorakhas quoted5 years ago
    It was brightly decorated, for one thing. Ivy and mistletoe hung in bunches from the bookshelves. Brightly colored streamers festooned the walls, a feature seldom found in most holes or even quite civilized cats.
  • Olha Nykorakhas quoted5 years ago
    “ . . . and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you’re a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions
  • Olha Nykorakhas quoted5 years ago
    Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
  • Макс Поляковhas quoted5 years ago
    YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

    'So we can believe the big ones?'

    YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

    'They're not the same at all!'

    YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET... Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

    'Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point...'
  • Макс Поляковhas quoted5 years ago
    Ye gods,' he said. 'What a face! He looks as though he died of fright! What happened?'

    'Well,' said the Dean, 'as far as I can tell, the Bursar opened his wardrobe and found the man inside.'

    'Really? I wouldn't have said the poor old Bursar was all that frightening.'

    'No, Archchancellor. The corpse fell out on him.'
  • Макс Поляковhas quoted5 years ago
    They reached the bottom of the stairs.

    There was an absence of anybody. And any body
  • Макс Поляковhas quoted5 years ago
    Besides, it ain't like the dark we used to have in the cellar.'

    'Oh, they had a special kind of a dark when you was a lad, did they?' said Medium Dave. 'Not like the kind of dark you get these days, eh?'

    Sarcasm didn't work.

    'No,' said Catseye, simply. 'It wasn't. In our cellar, it wasn't.'

    'Our mam used to wallop us if we went down to the cellar,' said Medium Dave.
  • Макс Поляковhas quoted5 years ago
    Oh, just... you know, just... just looking. A little... experiment. After all, you never know.'

    'You never know what?'

    'Just... never know, you know.'

    'Sometimes you know,' said Ridcully. 'I think I know quite a lot that I didn't used to know. It's amazing what you do end up knowing, I sometimes think. I often wonder what new stuff I'll know.'

    'Well, you never know.'

    'That's a fact.'

    High
  • Макс Поляковhas quoted5 years ago
    It wouldn't be Hogswatch when I was a kid without a pillowcase hanging by the fire ...'

    'A pillowcase?' said the Senior Wrangler, sharply.

    'Well, you can't get much in a stocking,' said the Dean.

    'Yes, but a whole pillowcase?' the Senior Wrangler insisted.

    'Yes. What of it?'

    'Is it just me, or is that a rather greedy and selfish way to behave? In my family we just hung up very small socks,' said the Senior Wrangler. 'A sugar pig, a toy soldier, a couple of oranges and that was it. Hah, turns out people with whole pillowcases were cornering the market, eh?'
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