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
Witches Abroad
“Tarde o temprano todo se reduce al alma.”
I Shall Wear Midnight
“Não há mapas. Não é possível mapear o sentido de humor.”
The Color of Magic
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.”
Variante: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Fonte: A Hat Full of Sky
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Fonte: The Truth
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
General sources
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.
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans:
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?
I make no suggestion that one side or the other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.
“I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.”
Fonte: The Last Continent
“Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.”
Fonte: The Last Continent
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)
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Variante: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Fonte: Reaper Man
“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
Fonte: Sourcery