They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
Douglas AdamsNobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
Douglas AdamsThe simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
Douglas AdamsThis planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Douglas AdamsImagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.
Douglas AdamsYou may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.โ โEr, five,โ said the mattress. โWrong,โ said Marvin. โYou see?
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