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“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Quelle: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Quelle: Life, the Universe and Everything

“He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.”

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Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus

“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.”

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Quelle: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Quelle: The Salmon of Doubt

“Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Quelle: Life, the Universe and Everything

“In fact the only thing that I don't like about Whisky, is that if I take the merest sip of the stuff, it sends a sharp pain from the back of my left eyeball down to the tip of my right elbow, and I begin to walk in a very special way, bumping into people and snarling at the furniture. I have therefore learned to turn my attention to other tipples. Margaritas, I'm very fond of, but they make me buy very stupid things. When ever I've had a few margaritas I always wake up in the morning with a sense of dread as to what I will find downstairs. The worst was a 6ft long pencil and a 2ft wide India rubber that I had shipped over from New York, as a result of one injudicious binge.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”

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As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) by Neil Gaiman

“ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly bad that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Meaning of Liff

Appears as the first entry of the book.
The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“…he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his "Zen" method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”

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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. 4

“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Kontext: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.