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Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn’t mean it can’t be real.
– Terry Pratchett

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  1. … a metaphor … is like lying but more decorative. – Terry Pratchett
  2. Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor. – Elizabeth Hardwick
  3. Snowflake’s journey is a metaphor. A metaphor for what, exactly?I have no freaking clue. – Special Snowflake
  4. You mean it’s my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows? – Terry Pratchett
  5. How does it feel being a woman’s weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness. – Sofa Navarro
  6. It’s witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts. – Terry Pratchett
  7. We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. – John Green
  8. Quite a metaphor. The person in the most pain wins. Does that mean I get a Blue Ribbon? – Tom Perrotta
  9. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  10. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense. – Norton Juster
  11. There is always time for another last minute – Terry Pratchett
  12. I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN. – Terry Pratchett
  13. But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror’s defeat. – Terry Pratchett
  14. How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds. – Terry Pratchett
  15. You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don’t you? – Terry Pratchett
  16. The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. – Terry Pratchett
  17. A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. – Terry Pratchett
  18. In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? – Terry Pratchett
  19. That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money. – Terry Pratchett
  20. Too much alleged -˜fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off. – Terry Pratchett
  21. Or — and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it — the book was true and reality was lying. – Terry Pratchett
  22. As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked. – Terry Pratchett
  23. There’s no point in believing in things that exist. – Terry Pratchett
  24. Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to. – Terry Pratchett
  25. The sun set, which is everyday magic… – Terry Pratchett
  26. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home. – Terry Pratchett
  27. Where’s the pleasure in bein’ the winner if the loser ain’t alive to know they’ve lost? – Terry Pratchett
  28. TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. – Terry Pratchett
  29. You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right? – Terry Pratchett
  30. But that was just it – hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. – Terry Pratchett
  31. …Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium… – Terry Pratchett
  32. Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage. – Terry Pratchett
  33. A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath. – Terry Pratchett
  34. I believe the term is -˜eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means -˜theft by the government, – Terry Pratchett
  35. I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. – Terry Pratchett
  36. It’s most unfair. Once people find out you’re a vampire they act as if you’re some kind of monster. – Terry Pratchett
  37. REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE. – Terry Pratchett
  38. The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. – Terry Pratchett
  39. It’s supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly… and other things ending in olly. – Terry Pratchett
  40. Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. – Terry Pratchett

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