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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
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Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
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The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.
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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.
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How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
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Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
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The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.
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He actually caught himself saying things like Yippee, as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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The first ten million years were the worst, said Marvin, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
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God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Who is this god person anyway?
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Space is unimaginably big.
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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.
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All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. No, said the old man, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
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The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.
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