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Det var kanskje ikke alle som tenkte så langt før i tiden. Men folk tenkte iallfall.

It is in the nature of the universe that the person who always keeps you waiting ten minutes will, on the day you are ten minutes tardy, have been ready ten minutes early and will make a point of not mentioning this.

Her postcard from Nanking told him that she certainly didn't like what passed for Chinese food in China, and that she couldn't wait to come back to London and eat proper Chinese food.

Av alle ulykker som kan ramme mennesker, er ensomheten den verste.

Jeg sa at i min tid mente man at papirboken ville være død og begravet i løpet av en tyveårsperiode. Men Rodrik bare lo. "Jeg vet at man tenkte slik et par hundre års tid," sa han. "Men i det lange løp viste det seg heldigvis å være en kortlivet mote. Papirboken kom tilbake. Rett og slett fordi en bok ikke bare er innhold, en bok er også et objekt. Den er noe vi liker å veie i hånden, se på og glede oss over. En bok skal også være vakker."

Godt at det finnes løgn. For Vårherre hjelpe oss om alt som ble sagt var sant.

Gammelt ordspråk.

Bokhyller er spennende møbler. De kan føre oss hvor som helst!

Mennesker er ikke sykdommer, de har en sykdom.

For, as the world tumbles lazily, it is revealed as the Discworld - flat, circular, and carried through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the back of Great A'tuin, the only turtle ever to feature on the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, a turtle ten thousand miles long, dusted with the frost of dead comets, meteor-pocked, albedo-eyed. No one knows the reason for all this, but it is probably quantum.

Creators aren’t gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It’s men that make gods. This explains a lot.

People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someoe is killed by a freak chain of event - the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there - that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

"Don't ask me," Mat said, scowling. " I said this place doesn't make sense. If that's the oddest thing we see here, I'll be a Murandian's mustache. Come on."

Reannuals are plants that grow backwards in time. You sow the seed this year and they grow last year. Mort's family specialized in distilling the wine from reannual grapes. These were very powerful and much sought after by fortune-tellers, since of course they enabled them to see the future. The only snag was that you got the hangover the morning before, and had to drink a lot to get over it.

Moist always raised the stakes. Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible because sometimes the impossible was possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

He was tall, red-haired and freckled, with the sort of body that seems to be only marginally under it’s owners control; it appeared to be made out of knees.

Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

Det tryggeste er å lese den samme boken. Om og om igjen. Bare den samme boken.

Return to where?" Lord Vetinari turned to face him. "Not, let me make it clear, to the Counterweight continent",he said. "This is not one of those birds the Agatean Empire uses for its message service. It is a well-known fact that we have no contact with that mysterious land. And this bird is not the first to arrive here for many years,and it did not bring a strange and puzzling messages. Do I make myself clear?" "No." "Good." "This is not an albatross?" The Patrician smiled. "Ah,I can see you're getting the hang of it.