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„Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.“
„I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.“
„Well … welcome. My house is your house’, his brow suddenly furrowed and he looked worried, ‘although only in a metaphorical sense, you understand, because I would not, much as I always admired your straightforward approach, and indeed your forthright stance, actually give you my house, it being the only house I have, and therefore the term is being extended in an, as it were, gratuitous fashion“
„Stop that!’ he shouted. ‘You’re soldiers! You’re not supposed to fight!“
„Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.“
„Waiting is the worst part,’ said Pismire.’No it isn’t,’ said Owlglass, who wasn’t even being trusted to hold a sword. ‘I expect that having long sharp swords stuck in you is the worst part.“
„Out of Print” is bookseller speak for “We can’t be hedgehogged.“
„Whose side are they on?’ said Brocando.’Sides? Their own, I suppose, just like everyone else.“
„I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.You shouldn’t say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.“
„I can’t have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.”Good,’ said Snibril.’I’ll do it myself.“
„Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance…“
„Next comes the realist phase (“After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.”).“
„The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that’s just the same as being mad except that it’s quieter. If only you could mix them together, you’d end up with normal people.“
„It’s an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start (“She looks like a Winnifred to me”), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.“
„Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new ‘fire’ stuff on the environment, you’re being chased and eaten by most of the planet’s large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.“
„Currently there’s five machines permanently networked here. They all contain the serious core stuff. A couple of the machines are pensioned off 486s, with little other value now. Plus there’s two Jaz drives in the building and the portable also carries a fair amount of stuff. Plus every Friday a man comes around and carves all the new stuff onto stone slabs and buries them in the garden… I think I’m okay.“
„In Reading [England] there is this thing called the IDR, short for “Inner Distribution Road”, which is bureaucratese for “Big thing that cost a lot of money and relieves traffic problems, provided all your traffic wants to orbit the town centre permanently”. It’s a 2-3 lane dual carriageway that goes round the town centre. It has lots of roundabouts, an overhead section, a couple of spare motorway-like exits (that’s British motorways — y’know, the roundabout with the main road going under it), and a thing called the Watlington Street Gyratory, where you have to get in lane for your intended destination about three years and two corners before you get there with no signposting. I used to cycle along it every day to get to school, before I fell off at 35 mph. [Kids! Don’t try this at home! ] I know it well. I believe it is impossible to leave Reading heading west.“
„I have to admit that I drive past Bridgwater quite regularly. And fast.“
„The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them…“
„Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then!“
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