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Image, Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of

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Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, That’s the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and

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That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke

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The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet.

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I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

—Terry Pratchett

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Image, Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always

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Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming,

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He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

—Terry Pratchett

Image, Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up

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Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, Of course, Ankh-Morpork’s citizens had always claimed that the river water was

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Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

—Terry Pratchett

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Image, The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and

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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, It was Carrot who’d suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should

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It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was

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Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

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When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it’s wrong.

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There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

—Terry Pratchett

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Image, Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it’s the

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Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2)

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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

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Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

—Terry Pratchett

Image, It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of

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It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

—Terry Pratchett