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Time Quotes by Douglas Adams

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They live in perpetual fear of the time they call “The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief.” The quotes jump from that dread to moments that flip from good to bad and back again. They also wonder if the past is a story we tell ourselves and imagine countless futures branching from each instant.

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Time is bunk.

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It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

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“Time is an illusion. Lunch-time doubly so.”

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The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

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Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

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In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

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“NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.”

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“There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!”

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“Time,” said Arthur weakly, “is not currently one of my problems.”

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How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate…

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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,…

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“OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool…

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We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space…

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The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that…

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Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital…

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“These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles…

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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and…

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In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time…

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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never…

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“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It…

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“If he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to…

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“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild,…

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Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the…

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“One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is…

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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and…

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“great book stands the test of time unlike my good self….”

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Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

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The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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“Wainwright’s Fruit Emporium. Mr Wainwright is not able to take calls at this time since he is not right in the head…

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'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice,…

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“You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?" "Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could…

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Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time…

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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…

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Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

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“Hey,” he said, “I thought you said you didn’t want to shoot us!” and ducked again. They waited. After a moment a…

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“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely…

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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still…

Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered.

“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where…

“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.”

“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of…

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