|west| wrote:we could quote the whole series, or we could tell people to go out and read "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" series
and also Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
YAY.... Discworld.
Hmmm.... A thread of quotes of death. I lauhed my ass of reading them. Death is funny.
"Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.
After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted"
-IT WOULD BE A BLOODY STUPIDWORLD IF PEOPLE
GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING,WOULDN'T IT?
"It can't be intelligent, can it?" said the Bursar.
"All it's doing is moving around slowly and eating things," said the Dean.
"Put a pointy hat on it and it'd be a faculty member," said the Archchancellor.
Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
"And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
The members of the Guild of Assassins considered themselves cultured men who enjoyed good music and food and literature. And they knew the value of human life. To a penny, in many cases.
The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.
Rincewind: I'm not going to ride on a magic carpet! I'm afraid of grounds.
Conina: You mean heights. And stop being silly.
Rincewind: I know what I mean! It's the grounds that kill you!
It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse."