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Douglas Adams was a British writer best known for his science fiction series 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. His work is celebrated for its unique humor and profound philosophical insights, making it a favorite among readers. Adams' novels often contain satirical commentary on modern society and deep reflections on the human condition.

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“Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“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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Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Who is this god person anyway?”

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Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“How many roads must a man walk down?”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.”

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Book:Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

“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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Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“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.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“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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Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“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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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts

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

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“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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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Life! Don't talk to me about life!”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”

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Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.”

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Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

About the Author

Born: March 11, 1952
Died: May 11, 2001
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 670

Books & Sources

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of FiveRelated source material

The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseRelated source material

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last TimeRelated source material

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyRelated source material

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyRelated source material

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyRelated source material

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the SoulRelated source material

So Long, and Thanks for All the FishRelated source material

Last Chance To SeeRelated source material

Mostly HarmlessRelated source material

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