[b]Terry Pratchett
Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen in a cutting way. She could make something sound stupid just by hearing it.[/b]
Here of course some read us in a cutting way.
There’s a door.
Where does it go?
It stays where it is, I think.
How then [philosophically] is this more than just a joke?
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.
How then [philosophically] is this more than just a clever observation?
But here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.
Not counting the revolutions that never really get started.
Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Or [if you can] just start a nuclear war.
You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?.. It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It’s all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It’s all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it’s even possible to find out. It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be. It’s all the wasted chances.
True, but only for the vast majority of us.