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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'.

— Terry Pratchett The Carpet People (1971)

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The Nome Trilogy (1989)

Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.

Hogfather (1996)

I don't think I've found God, but I may have seen where gods come from.

I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist (2008)

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

The Carpet People (1971)

Dodger lived in a world where nobody asked questions apart from: “How much?” and “What’s in it for me?”

Dodger (2012)

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