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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. — Douglas Adams

But thanks for taking an interest," said the Vogon guard. "Bye now. — Douglas Adams

[..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..] — Douglas Adams

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. — Douglas Adams

The sun was beginning to dry out the mud that Arthur lay in. — Douglas Adams

Research. Government archives. Detective work. Few lucky guesses. Easy. — Douglas Adams

A carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape. — Douglas Adams

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To. — Douglas Adams

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind. — Douglas Adams

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know? — Douglas Adams

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be. — Douglas Adams

Albacete (AL-ba-seet) n. A single surprisingly long hair growing in the middle of nowhere. — Douglas Adams

And then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. — Douglas Adams

We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing. — Douglas Adams

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist! — Douglas Adams

This sentence is not true — Douglas Adams

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. — Douglas Adams

Don't worry. Everything is getting nicely out of control. — Douglas Adams

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up. — Douglas Adams

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing! — Douglas Adams

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one. — Douglas Adams

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? — Douglas Adams

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. — Douglas Adams

Abilene (AB-a-lene) adj. Descriptive of the pleasing coolness on the reverse side of the pillow. — Douglas Adams

Groop I implore thee," continued the merciless Vogon, "my foonting turlingdromes. — Douglas Adams

Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to. — Douglas Adams

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in. — Douglas Adams

Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever. — Douglas Adams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. — Douglas Adams

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

The future of computer power is pure simplicity. — Douglas Adams

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. — Douglas Adams

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. — Douglas Adams

Then Frankie said: 'Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down? — Douglas Adams

They were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts. — Douglas Adams

How many roads must a man walk down? — Douglas Adams

Aberystwyth (n.)
A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams

I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies. — Douglas Adams

Discovered it had an emergency back-up personality — Douglas Adams

Life!" urged Fook. "The Universe!" said Lunkwill. "Everything!" they said in chorus. — Douglas Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher ... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it. — Douglas Adams

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. — Douglas Adams

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you. — Douglas Adams

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams

We didn't need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don't (yet) need a special word for people with only one head. — Douglas Adams

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. — Douglas Adams

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't — Douglas Adams

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon. — Douglas Adams

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? — Douglas Adams

I have been listening," said Arthur, "but I'm not sure it's helped. — Douglas Adams

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy. — Douglas Adams

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. — Douglas Adams

Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I intended, — Douglas Adams

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer. — Douglas Adams

And what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterward. — Douglas Adams

He stretched, ate his last bite of fungal curds, drank the dregs of something not entirely unlike coffee, and headed out to keep peace in wartime. — James S.A. Corey

Beppu (n.)
The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page. — Douglas Adams

Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is. — Douglas Adams

It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down. — Douglas Adams

doing with the puzzled — Douglas Adams

Except that the legends say the Magratheans used to manufacture planets. — Douglas Adams

Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox's presidency was all about. — Douglas Adams

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. — Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. — Douglas Adams

He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium. — Douglas Adams

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' — Douglas Adams

Infinity minus one," chattered the computer. "Improbability sum now complete. — Douglas Adams

The secret of healthy hitchhiking is to eat junk food. — Douglas Adams

And that is what Mauritius is most famous for: the extinction of the dodo. — Douglas Adams

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. — Douglas Adams

Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out. — Douglas Adams

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. — Douglas Adams

Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet — Douglas Adams

then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by. — Douglas Adams

I'm convinced that Bach is the greatest genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy. — Douglas Adams

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. — Douglas Adams

This is not her story. But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences. — Douglas Adams

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp. — Douglas Adams

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making. — Douglas Adams

The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination. — Douglas Adams

Share & enjoy life, the universe & everything — Douglas Adams

Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater for you. We are not proud. — Douglas Adams

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it — Douglas Adams

CLUN (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you. — Douglas Adams

There was something very slightly odd about him, but it was difficult to say what it was. — Douglas Adams

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons. — Douglas Adams

The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front. — Douglas Adams

Something was moving quietly through the ionosphere many miles above the surface of the planet; several somethings in fact, — Douglas Adams

...illegal states of mind... — Douglas Adams

What's up?" [asked Ford.]
"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there. — Douglas Adams

I'm afraid you're going to have to accept it, — 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! — Douglas Adams

She wish she knew what it was she was trying not to think about — Douglas Adams

Marvin flashed her an electronic look. — Douglas Adams

ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. — Douglas Adams

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group. — Douglas Adams