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Douglas Adams

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 11, 1952

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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

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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

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Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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Life is wasted on the living.

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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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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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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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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

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Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

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

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I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

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