What did Terry Pratchett mean by: Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is. - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom Copy
+ You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Librarian, Library, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they’re very, very lucky. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Lucky, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ Aliens don’t get stuck in air ducts. It’s practically a well-known fact. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Air, Aliens, Fact, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Book, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Artist, TRUE, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ You’re allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Darkness, Grants, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Fantasy, Struggle, 0 - Terry Pratchett Author · United Kingdom
+ People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Terry Pratchett, Believe, 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