People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to be…

Terry Pratchett
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People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7), p.79, Random House
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Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again! ✨ Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). The Folklore of Discworld, Doubleday UK
Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15), p.72, Random House
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, The mountain is, and is not. They would think, The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth hav … ▶

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7), p.79, Random House

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