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“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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@freemo Pratchett was a grandmaster with words and concepts. I should reread this, it's the right season for it!
@bypel Dont drag Pratchett into the shiftiness of humans :)
@bypel Now I need to post more Pratchett quotes :)
@freemo “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Nudge, nudge ^-^
@albertcardona @General @MrScoville
One of my favorite quotes:
“All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
I have a varient of it I made up:
All animals can be cuddled, some can only be cuddled once.
@freemo @General
Discworld was always curious about the neverending novel but never had the chance to read it.