some terry pratchett quotes from his Disc World novels

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

You don't get big houses and carriages without grindin' the faces of the poor a bit.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

While evidence says that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, they're probably all on first steps.

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

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Santiago de Chile

i grew up with the internet i remember using aol to log onto the web it was a dial up it took a lot of time to load we used to use aim everyone would make away messages and your could choose your own username everyone would compete on who was cooler and then came cell phones it was just a phone at that time there were a couple of games and there were ringtones too after came text messages you used to have to pay per each text message after came plans to pay for texts meanwhile computers got faster and now there was dsl and cable internet i remember the first iphone i think it came out when i was in college

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"Whatever caused the slump that, in turn, became a panic, one thing was clear—none of those who had helped to inflate the bubble felt responsible for its bursting. They were the blameless casualties of a disaster of almost natural proportions." Diaz, H. (2022). Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Pan Macmillan.

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