Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

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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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