H2g2 Quotes

• The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

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  Civilization, Lunch, Survival

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.146, Del Rey

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• God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

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  God, Finals, Messages

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• Space is big. Really 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, but that's just peanuts to space.

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  Funny, Believe, Mean

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, vol.1". Book by Douglas Adams, 2009.

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• So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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  Democracies Have, Long, Dolphins

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, Pan Macmillan

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

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  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

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  Puff, Hitchhiking, Logic

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

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  Civilization, Needs, Use

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

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  Years, Firsts, Decline

  Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) ch. 18

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• In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

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  Civilization, Two, Omission

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin

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  Dream, Sweet, Hate

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.

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  Pain, Mean, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.70, 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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