What did Terry Pratchett mean by: Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom Copy
+ People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Waiting, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Atheism, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror’s defeat. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Book, Horror, Purpose, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ Thats how we survive infinity – we kill it by breaking it up into small bits. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Infinity, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Safe, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ Where’s the pleasure in bein’ the winner if the loser ain’t alive to know they’ve lost? Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Alive, Loser, Winner, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ Anyway, just because you’re sworn enemies doesn’t mean you can’t be friends, does it? Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Enemy, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
