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There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Mind, Stories

Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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

Responsibility, Dodge

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.355, Del Rey

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Money, Funny Life, Years

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Distance, Lying, Science

Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place...

Funny, Humor, Technology

"Biting back at Microsoft" by Paul Mooney, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2001.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

Civilization, Lunch, Survival

Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.146, Del Rey

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Mistake, Food, Thinking

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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

Thinking, Lunch, People

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Integrity, Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible

Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

Interesting, Challenges, Tedium

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Life, Inspiring, Dream

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Two, Deep Thought, Answers

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 27

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Funny, Humor, Doctors

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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

Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.

People, Mind, Dawn

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.153, Ballantine Books

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

Lying, Men, Asteroids

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

Moving, Technology, Typewriters

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

Nice, Exercise, Brain

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.

Morning, Dew, Fallen

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Reality, Statistics, Guides

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.223, Del Rey

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

Opportunity, Missing, Care

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

People, Work Out, Wish

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story”, Gramercy

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Disappointment, Expectations, Sorrow

Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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

Nice, Rain, Food

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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