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Life,” said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. (Douglas Adams)
42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family. View quote
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She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care. View quote
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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked. View quote
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Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody. View quote
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious. View quote
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Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. View quote
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People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. View quote
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In an infinite Universe anything can happen. View quote
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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm. View quote
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Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe. (Douglas Adams)
Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. View quote
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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. View quote
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Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. View quote
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Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does. View quote
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Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. View quote
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Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. View quote
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Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. View quote
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I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams. View quote
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Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. View quote
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and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. (Douglas Adams)
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. View quote
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The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. View quote
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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. View quote
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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. View quote
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