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How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it? (Douglas Adams)
He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now. View quote
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And that, apart from a flurry of sensational newspaper reports which exposed him as a fraud, then trumpeted him as the real thing so that they could have another round of exposing him as a fraud again and then trumpeting him as the real thing again, until they got bored and found a nice juicy snooker player to harass instead, was that. View quote
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WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U. S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of "WFT-II, unlike such major U. S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus ..." View quote
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If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm. View quote
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You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light. View quote
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FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery. View quote
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She held the car grimly to the road as it negotiated the bends with considerable difficulty and the straight sections with only slightly less. The car had landed her in court on one occasion when one of its front wheels had sailed off on a little expedition of its own and nearly caused an accident. The police witness in court had referred to her beloved Citroën as "the alleged car" and the name had subsequently stuck. She was particularly fond of the alleged car for many reasons. If one of its doors, for instance, fell off she could put it back on herself, which is more than you could say for a BMW. View quote
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You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot. View quote
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It was a couple of days before Kate Schechter became aware of any of these things, or indeed of anything at all in the outside world. She passed the time quietly in a world of her own in which she was surrounded as far as the eye could see with old cabin trunks full of past memories in which she rummaged with great curiosity, and sometimes bewilderment. Or, at least, about a tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid, and often painful or uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which surprised her. Insofar as she recognised at all that she was dreaming, she realised that she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins. View quote
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Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it. (Douglas Adams)
It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones. View quote
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... Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died. View quote
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The explosion was now officially designated an "Act of God." But, thought Dirk, what god? And why? What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? View quote
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The device [electronic I Ching calculator] also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to 4. ...anything above 4 it represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow." Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over twenty pounds of ready cash for the thing. View quote
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There was constant talk about hewing things and ravaging things and splitting things asunder. Lots of big talk of things being mighty, and of things being riven, and of things being in thrall to other things, but very little attention given, as I now realise, to the laundry. View quote
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The Great Zaganza said: "You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of." View quote
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We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it. View quote
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. View quote
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. View quote
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LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl.vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd. (Douglas Adams)
Ford There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for 'Hamlet' they've worked out. View quote
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You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole. View quote
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This was the evening of the last day of Gordon Way's life. View quote
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Generally, old media don't die. View quote
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