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

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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. more

“The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.”

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

Ifs Knows Looks Ends My Own Car Needed Strategy

Book:Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.”

World Folly Customs Conventional

Book:The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.”

May Poetry Clear Effects Produce Mere Profound Endure Brilliant Steady Now And Then Stamps Vivid Degenerates Brevity

Book:Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…

Source: Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…

“Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.”

Poetry Tone Melancholy

Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works

“The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.”

Ifs Humans Heart Natural Affection Arise Intense Electric Truest

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.”

Opportunity Gone Forever Bears Bliss Bugs Decorum

Book:The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition