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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Disdaining his family and the dwellers of the Northlands for what he considers their failure to acknowledge his magnificence, vain dragon Gwenvael the Handsome brokers an alliance with a woman Beast who hides a sensual nature. By the author of Dragon

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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: lunchtime, Funny, Time, whimsical

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Inspiring, Right And Wrong

“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.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: whimsical, Funny, Universe, Space

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always belie…”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Funny, whimsical theories

“And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Successful People

“Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Successful People

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Universe & Its Meaning, Flowers

“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Essentials, Good Advice

“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Politics, Presidency

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: reality of existence

“Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth About Being Human

“The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Catch-22

“You guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: insults, losers, Unhip