Terry Pratchett Quotes About Magic
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A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.
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This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'
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Magic never dies. It merely fades away.
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It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.
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This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
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People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.
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Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.
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Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.
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Let's see, now... in HOGFATHER there are a number of stabbings, someone's killed by a man made of knives, someone's killed by the dark, and someone just been killed by a wardrobe. It's a book about the magic of childhood. You can tell.
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And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!
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Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.
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That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.
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That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
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The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
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You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
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Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?
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It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.
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People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.
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Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'
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There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.
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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
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Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.
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It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
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We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.
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Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
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That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!
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Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'
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