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He actually caught himself saying things like Yippee, as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Douglas Noel Adams
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Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
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I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.
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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.
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If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
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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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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
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So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.
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Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
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I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
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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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But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment. I've seen it. It's rubbish, said Zaphod,nothing but a gnab gib. A what? Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.
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The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.
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I think the idea of art kills creativity.
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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?
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Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.
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What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!
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