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However, it is well known that most people don't listen. They use the time when someone else is speaking to think of what they're going to say next.

Belief is a force. It's a weak force, by comparison with gravity; when it comes to moving mountains, gravity wins every time. (p. 202)

After all, the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want. (pp. 83-84)

Just because fate throws you together doesn't mean fate's got it right. (p. 312)

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

The Sphinx is an unreal creature. It exists solely because it has been imagined. (p. 264)

The noise stopped, filling the air with the dark metallic clang of sudden silence. (p. 301)

Those first pyramids had been built by human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium, who had cut rocks into pieces and then painfully put them back together again in a better shape. (p. 96)

Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination. Hear a speech declaring a holy war and, I assure you, your ears should catch the clink of evil's scales and the dragging of its monstrous tail over the purity of the language. No, we do it for the money. And because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money. There can be few cleaner motives, shorn of all pretense.(p. 46)

It's hard enough to go through life disappointing yourself every second day, but disappointing others takes it out of you too. That's why you should never answer the phone or the door. So you don't have to say no to whoever's on the other side.

His mother, as far as he could remember, had been a pleasant woman and as self-centred as a gyroscope. (p. 29)

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. (p. 135)