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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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tags humor, short, time

“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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tags beauty, belief, metaphor

“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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tags humor, imagery

“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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tags humor, perspective, space

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

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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tags happiness, humor, short

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”

-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
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tags metaphor

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