Lancre Quotes

#1. This is Lancre we're talkin' about. If we was men, we'd be talking about layin' down our lives for the country. As women, we can talk about laying down.

Terry Pratchett

#2. A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

Terry Pratchett

#3. She was pretty sure Sample #17 had been some Lancre Blue Vein, which had reacted vigorously with the acid, blown a small hole in the ceiling and covered half the work-bench with a dark green substance that was setting like tar.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. The time he'd cheated on Syl, Syl had seen through him, broken off their engagement, and cheated on him with Charles, which had fried his ass possibly worse than any single other ass frying he'd ever had, in a life that, it recently seemed, was simply a series of escalating ass fries.

George Saunders

#6. When you get fat and lose your hunger. That is when you know the sellout has happened.

Bruce Springsteen

#7. where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom*
*Made it up
and extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Would you like an orange, I have an extra"
"I'd like to give you the orange actually"
"We'll, yes, that's fine and good, but it's not your bloody orange to give. This is my orange

Jandy Nelson

#9. Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful
fight.
Still
is.

Charles Bukowski