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“But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment."
I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib."
A what?"
Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Quelle: Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

“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.”

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“It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.”

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“I don’t know what I’m looking for.”
“What not?”
“Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

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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.”

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“Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.”

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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.”

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“If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“… 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.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“In an infinite Universe anything can happen.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The waiter approached.
'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?'
'Huh?' said Ford.
'Huh?' said Arthur.
'Huh?' said Trillian.
'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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“Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.”

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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.”

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“Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.”

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

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“Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.”

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Quelle: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“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.”

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

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