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He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
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Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
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I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
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The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.
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