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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“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 chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
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