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• Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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  Art, Would Be, Genius

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

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  People, Nerd, Use

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• Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

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  People, Way, Bookshelves

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.

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  Real, Paper, Tables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

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• Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

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  Fire, Wings, Two

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

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  Hate, Shapes, Marvin

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.189, Del Rey

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• "I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better."

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  Thinking, Different, Arthur

  "Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 5)". Book by Douglas Adams (Chapter 18), 1992.

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• Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

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  Book, Reading, Finals

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

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  Food, Yellow, People

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.509, Pan Macmillan

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• But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.

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  Sadness, Loss, Men

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

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  Funny, Family, Food

  "Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. January 1981.

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• We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.

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  Mistake, Animal, Self

  "Last Chance to See". Book by Douglas Adams, 1990.

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• And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

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  Girl, Nice, Men

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• ...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

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  Down And, Firsts, Serious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

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  Party, Said, Physicist

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.

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  Writing, Thinking, Buckets

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• Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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  House, Mind, Sneaky

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

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  Flower, Sunset, Piano

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.78, Del Rey

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

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  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• "Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."

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  Doe, God Knows, Courses

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• Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

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  Jumping, Snow, Advice

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.40, Del Rey

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• Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

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  Alcohol, World, Six

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.38, Del Rey

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• The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

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  Courage, Strong, Wings

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• [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

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  Philosophy, College, Men

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• People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.

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  Believe, Intelligent, Thinking

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