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

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Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

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

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My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

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

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Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

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To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

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AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.

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Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

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

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In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

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I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.

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You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!

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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

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High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

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CLIXBY (adj.) Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.

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Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

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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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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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

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The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

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LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl. vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.

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I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

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The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

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Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.

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The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

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The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.

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