Small Gods - Terry Pratchett [124]
Maskerade* • Feet of Clay* • Hogfather* • Jingo*
The Last Continent* • Carpe Jugulum*
The Fifth Elephant* • The Truth*
Thief of Time* • The Last Hero*
Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
And in Hardcover
Night Watch*
*Published by HarperCollins
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SMALL GODS. Copyright © 1992 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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*Or, if you are a believer in Omnianism, the Pole.
*Which were of the one-size-fits-all, tighten-the-screws variety.
*Or would have done. If he had been there. But he wasn’t. So he couldn’t.
*It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.
*Words are the litmus paper of the mind. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word “commence” in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say “Enter,” don’t stop to pack.
*Provided that he wasn’t poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman.
*i.e., before the inhabitants had let goats graze everywhere. Nothing makes a desert like a goat.
**But not enough.
*Like many early thinkers, the Ephebians believed that thoughts originated in the heart and that the brain was merely a device to cool the blood.
*Fasta Benj’s people had no word for war, since they had no one to fight and life was quite tough enough as it was. P’Tang-P’Tang’s words had arrived as: “remember when Pacha Moj hit his uncle with big rock? Like that, only more worse.”
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