特里•普拉切特语录

特里•普拉切特语录

In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

在历史的浴缸中，真相比肥皂更难抓住，也更难找到。

——特里•普拉切特

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

人群的智商是其人数的平方根。

——特里•普拉切特

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

智慧来自经验，而经验则往往是缺乏智慧的结果。

——特里•普拉切特

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

要是你不把自己的生活变成故事，你就变成了别人故事的一部分。

——特里•普拉切特《碟形世界：猫和少年魔笛手》

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.

光觉得它跑的比任何事物都快，可它错了。无论它跑的多快，黑暗总是先它一步到达，并且等待着它的光临。

——特里•普拉切特《灵魂收割者》

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

如果你在某个地方的某个山洞里设置一个大型开关，开关上用油漆刷一个“世界末日开关。请勿触摸”的告示，油漆都不会有时间变干。

——特里•普拉切特《时光大盗》

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

“不要把它看作死亡，”死神说，“把它看成早点离开以避开高峰时间。”

——特里•普拉切特《好兆头》

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

时间是一种毒品。太多时间是致命的。

——特里•普拉切特《小众神》