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Solomon had earlier tried to give him some inkling of what Julius Caesar was all about, and it seemed to Dodger to be about something like a gang fight, except that everybody talked too much.
Dodger (2012)
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.
The Unadulterated Cat (1989)
And that was how Dodger and Simplicity got into Parliament, indeed with the cutthroat razor—and with a lie, which was fine, considering that’s how so many people got into Parliament.
Dodger (2012)
Up until now I'd always thought RSI meant 'I hate my damn job'.
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)
Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possibly go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it and then looked up at Charlie, who got the kind of smile that you get when people know you have money.
Dodger (2012)
Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd all be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-above-board way known as 'doing business'.
The Carpet People (1971)
And just as Charlie had surmised, Dodger hadn’t had a day’s proper schooling. Instead, his life had mostly been spent learning things, which is surprisingly rather different, and he could read a face much better than a newspaper.
Dodger (2012)
"Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged".
My programming language was solder.
Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
Mort (2009)
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often students, for heaven's sake.
I don't believe. I never have, not in big beards in the sky.
I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)
The Auditors had tried to understand religion, because so much that made no sense whatsoever was done in its name. But it could also excuse practically any kind of eccentricity. Genocide, for example.
Thief of Time (2001)
“What is the truth? you might ask, if I was giving you a chance to speak, which at the moment I am not. My answer to you would be that the truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.”
Dodger (2012)
She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.
Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.
The Unadulterated Cat (1989)
'I can't have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.'
'Good,' said Snibril.
'I'll do it myself.'
The Carpet People (1971)
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.