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The light at the end of a tunnel may be an oncoming train.
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls.-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
A age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.-- James Michener ("Space")
Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but it takes a long time, and the light bulb has to really want to change.
"What shall we do?" said Twoflower.
"Panic?" said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry sabretoothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent brute!" and "Here, pussy."-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
"Unrequited love. It's fantastic! It never has to change, it never has to grow up, it never has to die."-- Vince Tyler (Queer as Folk)
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."-- Mark Twain
Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.-- Dylan Thomas
There are two ways spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.-- Edith Wharton
It is a well known fact that warriors and wizards do not get along, because one side considers the other side to be a collection of bloodthirsty idiots who can't walk and think at the same time, while the other side is naturally suspicious of a body of men who mumble a lot and wear long dresses. Oh, say the wizards, if we're going to be like that, then, what about all those studded collars and oiled muscles down at the Young Men's Pagan Association? To which the heroes reply, that's a pretty good allegation from a bunch of wimpsoes who won't go near a woman on account, can you believe it, of their mystical power being sort of drained out. Right, say the wizards, that just about does it, you and your leather posing pouches. Oh yeah, say the the heroes, why don't you...-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
And God said, "Let there be light" and there was light.
"Hmm, pleasant effect" thought God, and flipped it off and on a few times.
"Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad."-- Frederik Pohl
Lust comes at first sight, love comes after staring at the same person for elongated periods of time.-- lj user slvrstarlight
Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."-- Maya Angelou
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.-- Terry Pratchett
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.-- Dorothy Parker