Snuff
I love humour and books full of it too. But when there are great compassion, great understanding of human nature and great kindness shining through, the books become truly uplifting as well as really funny. They are full of clever and catchy quotes too.
In this particular instance I am talking of the Snuff by Terry Pratchett. A very-very good book.
I have even underlined some memorable quotes by hand and pen, held by that hand and will try to locate them for you now in no particular order.
Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.
Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then whether you wanted to or not you died. These were the only certainties...
That just goes to show, that you never know, although what it is that we never know I suspect we'll never know
..the traditional urinary argument. It was better to have them inside pissing out, than outside, pissing in. It was at least easy to keep an eye on them.
...you should never react to any comment or situation until you had decided exactly what you were going to do
Get out in the world and let the world see you and it might find a new word in its vocabulary such as, perhaps, 'Wow!'
He waved away yet more teacakes and teacups that would have been welcome were it not that they looked and tasted like what proper tea turns into shortly after you drink it. As far as Sam Vimes was concerned, he liked tea, but tea was not tea, if, even before drinking, you could see the bottom of the cup
In this particular instance I am talking of the Snuff by Terry Pratchett. A very-very good book.
I have even underlined some memorable quotes by hand and pen, held by that hand and will try to locate them for you now in no particular order.
Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.
Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then whether you wanted to or not you died. These were the only certainties...
That just goes to show, that you never know, although what it is that we never know I suspect we'll never know
..the traditional urinary argument. It was better to have them inside pissing out, than outside, pissing in. It was at least easy to keep an eye on them.
...you should never react to any comment or situation until you had decided exactly what you were going to do
Get out in the world and let the world see you and it might find a new word in its vocabulary such as, perhaps, 'Wow!'
He waved away yet more teacakes and teacups that would have been welcome were it not that they looked and tasted like what proper tea turns into shortly after you drink it. As far as Sam Vimes was concerned, he liked tea, but tea was not tea, if, even before drinking, you could see the bottom of the cup