{"id":33734,"date":"2015-12-13T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33734"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T22:23:42","slug":"qotd-a-few-more-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/13\/qotd-a-few-more-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: A few more selected Terry Pratchett quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>11<\/strong> Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12<\/strong> I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t go to university. Didn&#8217;t even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14<\/strong> It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it&#8217;s called Life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15<\/strong> Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16<\/strong> The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17<\/strong> Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18<\/strong> Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19<\/strong> The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20<\/strong> Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people .<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Martin Chilton for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/authors\/terry-pratchett-best-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. 12 I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. 13 I didn&#8217;t go to university. Didn&#8217;t even finish A-levels. But I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-33734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-terrypratchett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8M6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33735,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734\/revisions\/33735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}