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Douglas Adams
Born: 1952-03-11
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: 2001-05-11
Location of Death: Santa Barbara, CA
Field: Author
Info: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.

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  1. Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the wo ...
  2. All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great ...
  3. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a ...
  4. Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an after ...
  5. Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and e ...
  6. Even he, to whom most things that most people woul ...
  7. Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the gr ...
  8. For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a secon ...
  9. He attacked everything in life with a mix of extro ...
  10. He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream ...
  11. He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife ...
  12. He inched his way up the corridor as if he would r ...
  13. He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it wa ...
  14. His study was a total mess, like the results of an ...
  15. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ...
  16. Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarel ...
  17. I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won ...
  18. I find the whole business of religion profoundly i ...
  19. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing ...
  20. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I ...
  21. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds th ...
  22. I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain i ...
  23. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ...
  24. I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. ...
  25. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, ...
  26. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, w ...
  27. If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably ...
  28. In the beginning the Universe was created. This ha ...
  29. In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were ...
  30. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful ...
  31. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on ...
  32. It is a mistake to think you can solve any major p ...
  33. It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hithe ...
  34. It is a well-known fact that those people who must ...
  35. It is no coincidence that in no known language doe ...
  36. It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden ...
  37. Life is wasted on the living. ...
  38. Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squi ...
  39. Many men of course became extremely rich, but this ...
  40. Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beetho ...
  41. My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty ...
  42. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light wit ...
  43. One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm t ...
  44. One of the many major problems with governing peop ...
  45. See first, think later, then test. But always see ...
  46. Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, h ...
  47. That young girl is one of the least benightedly un ...
  48. The difficulty with this conversation is that it's ...
  49. The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently ina ...
  50. The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knigh ...
  51. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it ...
  52. The last time anybody made a list of the top hundr ...
  53. The major difference between a thing that might go ...
  54. The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate ab ...
  55. The moment at which two people, approaching from o ...
  56. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way tha ...
  57. The story so far: In the beginning the Universe wa ...
  58. There are two things in particular that it [the co ...
  59. There is a particular disdain with which Siamese c ...
  60. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone ...
  61. There is no problem so complicated that you cannot ...
  62. This is an important announcement. This is flight ...
  63. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ...
  64. Time is bunk. ...
  65. To give real service you must add something which ...
  66. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those p ...
  67. We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncer ...
  68. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. An ...
  69. You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ...

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