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Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. (Douglas Adams)
Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news? View quote
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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' View quote
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Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. View quote
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You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear. View quote
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. View quote
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In fact the only thing that I don't like about Whisky, is that if I take the merest sip of the stuff, it sends a sharp pain from the back of my left eyeball down to the tip of my right elbow, and I begin to walk in a very special way, bumping into people and snarling at the furniture. I have therefore learned to turn my attention to other tipples. Margaritas, I'm very fond of, but they make me buy very stupid things. When ever I've had a few margaritas I always wake up in the morning with a sense of dread as to what I will find downstairs. The worst was a 6ft long pencil and a 2ft wide India rubber that I had shipped over from New York, as a result of one injudicious binge. View quote
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AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front. View quote
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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. View quote
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Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment. View quote
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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place. (Douglas Adams)
A cup of tea would restore my normality." []. View quote
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Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative. View quote
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We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. View quote
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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood... blood... blood... blood... View quote
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... and the Universe,... will explode later for your pleasure. View quote
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I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. View quote
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How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. View quote
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Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it. View quote
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In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead. View quote
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Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully. (Douglas Adams)
Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave. View quote
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It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know? View quote
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You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual, I suppose. View quote
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There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence. View quote
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