Quotes from Dodger — Terry Pratchett
1948–2015 England
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God could hardly have been at that wedding or He would not have allowed it to turn from love to something so awful. When he’d asked Solomon, the old man had stroked his chin and mmm’d a few times and then said that surely any Almighty worth believing in would agree. And if not, Solomon would explain it to Him for them.
Dodger (2012)
He was beginning to see a world that stretched far beyond the tunnels beneath the streets—a world that was filled with things he didn’t know. Things he hadn’t even known he didn’t know until now. Things he realized with a jolt that he wanted to know about.
Dodger (2012)
The naughty ladies might give you a farthing for setting a gentleman’s footsteps in the right direction. As he grew older, he realized that some people would say that was, in fact, the wrong direction; there were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.
Dodger (2012)
He was still Dodger, of course, but what kind of Dodger? Because he was most definitely not the Dodger he had been a week ago. And he thought, if people change like this, how can you be sure about what you get and what you lose?
Dodger (2012)
Mmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless—people being who they are—don’t want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.
Dodger (2012)
Every player is dealt a hand from the pack of cards, and the object appears to be to put together one complete family, the happy family, simply by asking one of your opponents if they have a particular card. It would seem a cheerful game for children, but in fact, if they only did but know it, the parents are setting the child on the way to be a poker player or, worse, a politician.
Dodger (2012)
“Jupiter is a gigantic world, much bigger than the Earth.”
Dodger stared. “Do you mean that Jupiter is a world with people living on it?”
“Mmm, I believe astronomical science is uncertain on that point mmm, but I assume there must be, because otherwise what would be the purpose of it?”
Dodger (2012)