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

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Beauty doesn't have to beanything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto?”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Quelle: The Salmon of Doubt

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variante: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Quelle: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.”

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Douglas Adams buch So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Quelle: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“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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Douglas Adams

Quelle: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Quelle: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 23

“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.”

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Douglas Adams

Quelle: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“How do you feel?" he asked him.
"Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Variante: A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Quelle: Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000), reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt

“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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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy