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The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.
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Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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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 to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.
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The Answer to the Great Question Of…Life, the Universe and Everything…[is] Forty-two.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
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CLIXBY (adj.) Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
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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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Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.
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I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.
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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 watches?
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
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You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.
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After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.
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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, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
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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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In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures' plans.
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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 physics had a lot of catching up to do.
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The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.
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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 - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.
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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
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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 photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.
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Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
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He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.
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When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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Born:
March 11, 1952
Died:
May 11, 2001
(aged 49)
Bio:
Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
Known for:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
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