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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.
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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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And so the problem remained lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
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Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
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The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.
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I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!
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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
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And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.
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Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
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