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“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but 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

“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”

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Douglas Adams buch Last Chance to See

Quelle: Last Chance to See

“It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”

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

Quelle: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Beppu (n.)

The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Meaning of Liff

Quelle: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”

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“The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists…”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

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“I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford”

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Douglas Adams buch Mostly Harmless

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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.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Alltami (n.)

The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Meaning of Liff

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“I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Quelle: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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“Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Quelle: Life, the Universe and Everything

“Aberystwyth (n.)

A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Meaning of Liff

Quelle: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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“Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"

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“Good evening,” it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, “I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?”

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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 longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Quelle: Life, the Universe and Everything