Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

“He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.”

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“Perhaps I would like a glass of whisky. Yes, that seems more likely.”

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I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better.

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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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“He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.”

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Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

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...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

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Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea…

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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long…

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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from…

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“The Great Zaganza said: "You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of.”

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That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but…

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A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was…

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“In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact…

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Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet…

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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as…

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“Now Arthur knew this dog, and he knew it well. It belonged to an advertising friend of his, and was called Know-Nothing-Bozo…

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“Some fish were jumping up the beach and into the tree, which struck me as an odd thing for a fish to…

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A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where…

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Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to…

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“There is no problem about changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like…

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He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions…

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“Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During…

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Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

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“Laser light flickered all over him as if he was a packet of biscuits at a super-market check-out.”

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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

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“CLUN (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.”

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“A bit like a preying mantis that doesn’t prey—a non-preying mantis if you like.”

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“I have been listening,” said Arthur, “but I’m not sure it’s helped.”

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He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

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42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

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“The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination.”

— Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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“I love deadlines,” he has said. “I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

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Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

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I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

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“And do we also have, do we have … a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard?”

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Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

— Douglas Adams