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Douglas Adams

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“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

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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tags humor, iconic, opening line

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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tags humor, perception, short

“Life is wasted on the living.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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tags inspirational, life, short

“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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tags perception

“There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.”

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
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tags experience, perspective, time

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