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Quite Quotes by Douglas Adams
- A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
- Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
- There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if…
- Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain…
- These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent…
- What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched…
- I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
- Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I…
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