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Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England on March 11, 1952.
* He attended St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.
* After graduating, Adams worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC.
* In 1978, he created the radio comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
* The series was a huge success and was adapted into a book, a television series, a stage play, a comic book, and a video game.
* Adams also wrote the novels Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
* He died of a heart attack on May 11, 2001, at the age of 49.
* Adams is considered one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of all time.
* His work is known for its humor, wit, and sharp social commentary.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

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

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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

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I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

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Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple. Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

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I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

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The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

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Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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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.

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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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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

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The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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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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If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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