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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. (Douglas Adams)
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. View quote
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. View quote
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The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with. View quote
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In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing. View quote
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I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. View quote
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Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. View quote
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So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means. View quote
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...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying. View quote
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. View quote
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The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. (Douglas Adams)
He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it. View quote
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Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. View quote
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The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. View quote
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If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. View quote
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One is never alone with a rubber duck. View quote
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It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs. View quote
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Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that. View quote
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The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. View quote
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. View quote
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He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. (Douglas Adams)
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. View quote
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The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. View quote
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Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. View quote
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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. View quote
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