Douglas Adams Quotes

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  I refuse to prove that I exist, ‘Says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.’

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  A cup of tea would restore my normality.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Restore, Normality

• To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

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  Topics in Politics

• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Humour

• Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

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• I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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  Topics in Religion

• Kate’s spirits sank to the very bottom of  her being and began to prowl around there making a low growling noise.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression‘as pretty as an airport’.

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• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

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• ‘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 I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The Answer to the Great Question Of…Life, the Universe and Everything…Is…Forty-two.

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• Don’t Panic.

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• We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Science

• Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Science

• The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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  Topics in Humor, Life

  Tags in Live, Science

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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  Topics in Politics, Truth

• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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  Topics in Politics, Truth

• I’d far rather be happy than right any day.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

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

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  Topics in Humor

Douglas Adams (63)

Birth:	11th March, 1952
Death:	11th May, 2001
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Humorist, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Douglas Noel Adams was born in Cambridge, England. He was an English novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and playwright. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff, The Deeper Meaning of Liff, and Last Chance to See.

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