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Mind Quotes by Douglas Adams

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Douglas Adams jokes about a cough that sparks a conversation about joining in. He muses on dreaming, saying the subconscious mind explores itself. He also talks about finding purpose, the fast speed of thought, and how a computer terminal can link the mind and body to the universe.

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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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“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.”

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You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

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

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A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

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“It was the product of a mind that was not merely twisted, but actually sprained.”

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

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“...was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.”

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Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come…

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How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the…

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“Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just got space-sickness or religion.”

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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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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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A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the…

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But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that…

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“As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself…

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He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up…

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What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with…

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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that'…

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I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the…

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“Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture…

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Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not…

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Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought,"…

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Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this?…

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“His mouth started to speak, but his brain decided it hadn't got anything to say yet and shut it again. His brain…

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“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain…

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For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

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“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

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There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

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

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I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are…

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Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with…

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Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that…

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“He lay, panting heavily in the wet air, and tried feeling bits of himself to see where he might be hurt. Wherever…

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No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live…

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You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and…

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Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had…

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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…

You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you…