Terry Pratchett Quotes

What Was Magic, After All, But Something That Happened At The Snap Of A Finger? Where Was The Magic In That? It Was Mumbled Words And Weird Drawings In Old Books, And In The Wrong Hands It Was As Dangerous As Hell, But Not One Half As Dangerous As It Could Be In The Right Hands. The Universe Was Full Of The Stuff; It Made The Stars Stay Up And The Feet Stay Down.

But What Was Happening Now . . . This Was Magical. Ordinary Men Had Dreamed It Up And Put It Together, Building Towers On Rafts In Swamps And Across The Frozen Spines Of Mountains. They'd Cursed And, Worse, Used Logarithms. They'd Waded Through Rivers And Dabbled In Trigonometry. They Hadn't Dreamed, In The Way People Usually Used The Word, But They'd Imagined A Different World, And Bent Metal Around It. And Out Of All The Sweat And Swearing And Mathematics Had Come This . . . Thing, Dropping Words Across The World As Softly As Starlight.

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