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Lord Vetinari Realizing Things Very Calmly
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"I didn't exactly say--"
"In my experience, Miss Cripslock tends to write down exactly what one says," Vetinari observed. "It's a terrible thing when journalists do that. It spoils the fun. One feels instinctively that it's cheating, somehow."
Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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Don’t let me detain you.
Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork
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The Patrician's smile remained, but his face seemed to pull away from it, leaving it stranded all alone in the world.
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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the city watch series
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Hughnon sighed. "Words are too important to be left to machinery. We've got nothing against engraving, you know that. We've nothing against words being nailed down properly. But words that can be taken apart and used to make other words...well, that's downright dangerous. And I thought you weren't in favor, either?"
"Broadly, yes," said the Patrician. "But many years of ruling this city, Your Reverence, have taught me that you cannot apply brakes to a volcano. Sometimes it is best to let these things run their course. They generally die down again after a while."
"You have not always taken such a relaxed approach, Havelock," said Hughnon.
The Patrician gave him a cool stare that went on for a couple of seconds beyond the comfort barrier.
"Flexibility and understanding have always been my watchwords," he said.
"My god, have they?"
"Indeed."
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
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Posing. Menacingly.
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"One has to move with the times, of course," said the Patrician, shaking his head.
"We tend not to, over the road," said Ridcully. "It only encourages them."
"People do not understand the limits of tyranny," said Vetinari, as if talking to himself. "They think that because I can do what I like I can do what I like. A moment's thought reveals, of course, that this cannot be so."
"Oh, it is the same with magic," said the Archchancellor. "If you flash spells around like there's no tomorrow, there's a good chance that there won't be."
Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
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My friend is reading "Men at arms" so I doodled her favourite scene
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Rincewind - literally runs away from everything all the time, it's like his thing
Granny Weatherax - can outrun a horse in a short distance and keep pace with a horse over longer distance
Vimes - runs around chasing criminals all the time and once outran a pack of wolves
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it’s the day!!!!
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this scene fundamentally changed me as a person
just think of what we could have had...
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I love Vetinari because he's like
- an inventor who's capable of creating things that can blow up mountains and kill thousands of people, but is incredibly naive and believes no one would ever use his inventions with bad intentions? I'm gonna let him live in my attic, surrounded by traps of his own devising so no one can disturb him, and give him all the supplies he asks for for his little projects, because occasionally he comes up with a doozy.
- A con man who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars? I'll fake his death and put him in charge of some of the major industries in the city, because if there's anyone who knows how to get money out of people, it's a con artist.
- A man who looks exactly like me and was used as part of a plot to overthrow me and take over the city? I'll send him to the actors' guild so he can impersonate me whenever I feel like taking a little holiday.
- The world's greatest forger? Yoink. He's mine now.
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