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Subject: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has some great quotes
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"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"Looks like a fish. Moves like a fish. Steers like a cow."

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high. Men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Altha Centauri."

"It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a dis-used lavatory with a sign on the door saying "beware of the leopard.""

"Listen three-eyes, don't you try to out weird me, I get weirder things than you free with my breakfast cereal."

And we're talking the books and radio series here, not the movie.

Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but it's definitely mine.

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  • 12.15.2012 10:29 AM PDT

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

  • 12.15.2012 10:31 AM PDT

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Douglas Adams = literary genius.

  • 12.15.2012 10:33 AM PDT

"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

"If there's one thing life's taught me, it's to never go back for your bag."

  • 12.15.2012 10:33 AM PDT
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"I don't want to die now, I've got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"

  • 12.15.2012 10:34 AM PDT

"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

Oh man, can't believe I forgot " Forty-two......? "

  • 12.15.2012 10:35 AM PDT
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"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely considered as a bad move."

  • 12.15.2012 10:37 AM PDT

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"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again'. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."

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  • 12.15.2012 10:37 AM PDT

Never say you're bored. Never say you're satisfied with the world. Never stop doubting or questioning things. Always wonder. Always think. But always take time to drop your guard, you don't have to be smart all the time.

Professor Chronotis....

  • 12.15.2012 10:37 AM PDT

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"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again'. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."


The part where you figure out why it said that is pretty damn weird.

  • 12.15.2012 10:40 AM PDT

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Douglas Adams = literary genius.


Agreed x100, such a good man, he only died a couple of years ago, wish i'd met him.

  • 12.15.2012 10:42 AM PDT

Yes, I AM just that awesome.


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Douglas Adams = literary genius.


Agreed x100, such a good man, he only died a couple of years ago, wish i'd met him.
But he died in 2001...

  • 12.15.2012 10:44 AM PDT

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"The Hitchhiker's Travel Guide describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes". Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."



I could spend all day trying to remember my favourite Douglas Adam quotes, and still not get half of them.

  • 12.15.2012 10:48 AM PDT
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"Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"
"The what?" said Richard.
"The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ..."
"Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity."
"Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." ...
"You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see."

- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • 12.15.2012 10:50 AM PDT