English - Writer | March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
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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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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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