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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
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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 physical sensations and my state of mind?
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Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
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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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So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
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In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
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Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
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I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
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Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?
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He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
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If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
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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 a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.
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And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.
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March 11, 1952
Died:
May 11, 2001
(aged 49)
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