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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.
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A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. I will go mad! he annouced.
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Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
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I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
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Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.
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The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
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The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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