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"Theyre both magic. If you cant learn to ride an elephant, you can at least learn to ride a horse."
"There would be a price. And Granny knew enough about wizardry to be certain that it would be a high one. But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?"

Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the Discworld series and the first in which the main character is not Rincewind. The title is a play on words related to the phrase "Equal Rights".
"Theyre both magic. If you cant learn to ride an elephant, you can at least learn to ride a horse."
"It had been a very long night, and the morning didnt seem to be an improvement."
"Granny had nothing against fortune-telling provided it was done badly by people with no talent for it."
"Time passed, which, basically, is its job."
"A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course."
"It wasnt a large village, and wouldnt have shown up on a map of the mountains. It barely showed up on a map of the village."