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The light works, he said, indicating the window, the gravity works, he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. Anything else we have to take our chances with.
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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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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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I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
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Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.
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Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
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The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.
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Conceited little mega-puppy.
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