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Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

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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
Douglas N. Adams
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