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Wells Quotes by Douglas Adams

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Douglas Adams’s humor and curiosity make even the most ordinary topics sparkle. In these twenty‑nine Wells‑themed lines, you’ll find his trademark blend of absurdity and insight, perfect for anyone who enjoys a laugh with a side of philosophy.

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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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Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

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

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I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford

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What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because…

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than…

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He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to…

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Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's…

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It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know…

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Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear…

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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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The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad.…

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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going…

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The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that…

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But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the…

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It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to…

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Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there…

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Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be…

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R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not…

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Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making…

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Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through…

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In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well…

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We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care,…

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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic…

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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

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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…

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Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but…

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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole…

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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

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“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets…

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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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People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating…

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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…

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

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“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…

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

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“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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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…

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