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“The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing…' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.”

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

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“‎If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner…"
"Yeah?"
"Please don't hesitate to get lost.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Quelle: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.”

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

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“Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Quelle: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.”

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Douglas Adams buch Mostly Harmless

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“Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

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Douglas Adams

“Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.”

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

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

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.”

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Douglas Adams

Quelle: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“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.”

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Douglas Adams buch Last Chance to See

Quelle: Last Chance to See