Add quotes for Eric and Moving Pictures.

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%title Eric (1)
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Eric, by Terry Pratchett
No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well, /technically/ they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders always found, after a few days, that they didn't own their own horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.
[Terry Pratchett, Eric]
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Rincewind looked down at the broad steps they were climbing. They were something of a novelty; each one was built out of large stone letters. The one he was just stepping on to, for example, read: I Meant It For The Best.
The next one was: I Thought You'd Like It.
Eric was standing on: For The Sake Of The Children.
'Weird, isn't it?' he said. 'Why do it like this?'
'I think they're meant to be good intentions,' said Rincewind. This was a road to hell, and demons were, after all, traditionalists.
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%title Moving Pictures (1)
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Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that of course you can't have a /final/ frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier /to/, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate...)
[Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures]
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By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.
[Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures]
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There was a dog sitting by his feet.
It was small, bow-legged and wiry, and basically grey but with patches of brown, white, and black in outlying areas...
It looked up slowly, and said 'Woof?'
Victor poked an exploratory finger in his ear. It must have been a trick of an echo, or something. It wasn't that the dog had gone 'woof!', although that was practically unique in itself; most dogs in the universe /never/ went 'woof!', they had complicated barks like 'whuuugh!' and 'hwhoouf!'. No, it was that it hadn't in fact /barked/ at all. It had /said/ 'woof'.
'Could have bin worse, mister. I could have said "miaow".'
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''Twas beauty killed the beast,' said the Dean, who liked to say things like that.
'No it wasn't,' said the Chair. 'It was it splatting into the ground like that.'
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%title Making Money (1)
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Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
'I'm an Igor, thur. We don't athk quethtionth.'
'Really? Why not?'
'I don't know, thur. I didn't athk.'
[Making Money, by Terry Pratchett]
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The Watch armour fitted like a glove. He'd have preferred it to fit like a helmet and breastplate. It was common knowledge that the Watch's approach to uniforms was one-size-doesn't-exactly-fit-anybody, and that Commander Vimes disapproved of armour that didn't have that kicked-by-trolls look. He liked it to make it clear that it had been doing its job.
[Making Money, by Terry Pratchett]
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'The world is full of things worth more than gold. But we dig the damn stuff up and then bury it in a different hole. Where's the sense in that? What are we, magpies? Good heavens, /potatoes/ are worth more than gold!'
'Surely not!'
'If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, what would you prefer, a bag of potatoes or a bag of gold?'
'Yes, but a desert island isn't Ankh-Morpork!'
'And that proves gold is only valuable because we agree it is, right? It's just a dream. But a potato is always worth a potato, anywhere. A knob of butter and a pinch of salt and you've got a meal, /anywhere/. Bury gold in the ground and you'll be worrying about thieves for ever. Bury a potato and in due season you could be looking at a dividend of a thousand per cent.'
[Making Money, by Terry Pratchett]
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