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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.
Douglas Adams
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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
Douglas Noël Adams
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Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
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Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
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There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.
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What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!
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I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
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He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
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