{"id":33738,"date":"2015-12-27T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33738"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:49:00","slug":"qotd-ten-more-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/27\/qotd-ten-more-selected-terry-pratchett-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Ten more selected Terry Pratchett quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>31<\/strong> Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32<\/strong> The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they\u2019ve found it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33<\/strong> It\u2019s still magic even if you know how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34<\/strong> There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35<\/strong> The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36<\/strong> Here\u2019s some advice boy. Don\u2019t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That&#8217;s why they\u2019re called revolutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37<\/strong> If you don\u2019t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38<\/strong> Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39<\/strong> Inside every sane person there\u2019s a madman struggling to get out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40<\/strong> I&#8217;m not writing &#8216;The A-Team&#8217; &#8211; if there&#8217;s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.<\/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>31 Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. 32 The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they\u2019ve found it. 33 It\u2019s still magic even if you know how [&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-33738","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\/p2hpV6-8Ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738","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=33738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33739,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738\/revisions\/33739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}