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‘How can you kill ghosts?’ ‘How should I know? The question doesn't usually arise!’ ‘You exorcise them, I think.’ ‘What? Jumpin' up and down, runnin' on the spot, that kind of thing?’ The Dean had been ready for this. ‘It's spelled with an "O", Archchancellor. I don't think one is expected to subject them to, er, physical exertion.’ ‘Should think not, man. We don't want a lot of healthy ghosts buzzin' around.’

— Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld) (Page 159)

"Dass es noch nie jemand versucht hat", sagte Rüssel, "heißt nicht, dass es nicht funktionieren kann. Es bedeutet lediglich, dass es bisher noch keiner draufhatte."

— Das Einhörnchen, das rückwärts leben wollte by Walter Moers

It contained forbidden knowledge. Well, not actually forbidden. No-one had ever gone so far as forbidding it. Apart from anything else, in order to forbid it you'd have to know what it was, which was forbidden.

— Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, part 10) (Page 174)

"Evening, lad. Want to get a nice hot sausage down you?" Victor eyed the glistening tubes in the tray around Dibbler's neck. They smelled appetizing. They always did. And then you bit into them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

— Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, part 10) (Page 42)

The Alchemists' Guildhall was new. It was always new. It had been explosively demolished and rebuilt four times in the last two years, on the last occasion without a lecture and demonstration room in the hope that this might be a helpful move.

— Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, part 10) (Page 21)