Variante: A luz pensa que viaja mais rápido que qualquer coisa, mas está errada. Não importa quão rápido a luz viaje, ela descobre que a escuridão chegou lá primeiro, e estava esperando por ela.
Terry Pratchett Frases famosas
Citações de pessoas de Terry Pratchett
Frases sobre o tempo de Terry Pratchett
“Talvez a magia ainda fosse durar muito tempo. Talvez não. Mas, pensando bem, o que dura?”
Série Discworld, Guardas! Guardas!
Terry Pratchett frases e citações
Terry Pratchett livro Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad
“Tarde o temprano todo se reduce al alma.”
Terry Pratchett livro I Shall Wear Midnight
I Shall Wear Midnight
Terry Pratchett: Frases em inglês
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Contexto: 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.
But it is true that in an interview I gave recently I did describe a sudden, distinct feeling I had one hectic day that everything I was doing was right and things were happening as they should.
It seemed like the memory of a voice and it came wrapped in its own brief little bubble of tranquillity. I'm not used to this.
As a fantasy writer I create fresh gods and philosophies almost with every new book … But since contracting Alzheimer's disease I have spent my long winter walks trying to work out what it is that I really, if anything, believe.
“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”
A similar remark was reportedly made by Pratchett in The Herald (4 October 2004): I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Contexto: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
Fonte: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Terry Pratchett livro A Hat Full of Sky
Variante: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Fonte: A Hat Full of Sky
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Terry Pratchett livro Going Postal
Fonte: Going Postal
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Terry Pratchett livro The Truth
Fonte: The Truth
Terry Pratchett livro Wyrd Sisters
Fonte: Wyrd Sisters
Interview, quoted in "Words from the Master" http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/words-from-the-master.html in The Annotated Pratchett File http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Contexto: As for The Mapp... I suspect it'll never get a US publication. It seemed to frighten US publishers. They don't seem to understand it.<br>That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans:<br>A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?<br>I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
Terry Pratchett livro Witches Abroad
Fonte: Witches Abroad
“I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.”
Terry Pratchett livro The Last Continent
Fonte: The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett livro The Last Continent
Fonte: The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett livro Unseen Academicals
Fonte: Unseen Academicals
“Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.”
Terry Pratchett livro The Last Continent
Fonte: The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett livro The Carpet People
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Terry Pratchett livro Only You Can Save Mankind
Only You Can Save Mankind (1992)
Terry Pratchett livro Diggers
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Variante: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Fonte: Diggers (1990)
Terry Pratchett livro A Hat Full of Sky
Fonte: A Hat Full of Sky
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Terry Pratchett livro Reaper Man
Variante: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Fonte: Reaper Man
