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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST." --The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious

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“The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Universe, Maniacs

“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“'The light works,' he said, indicating the window, 'the gravity works,' he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. 'Anything else we have to take our chances with.’”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Perception, Self-Perception, Reality

“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Questioning

“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, humanity, Mankind

“We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: normalcy

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

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

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Being Right, Being Happy, Smart vs. Happy

“'How can I tell,' said the man, 'that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?’”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Perception, The Past

“'Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.’”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Meaning, Obligation, Mankind, Human Nature

“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Opportunity, Life, Meaning

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, present, Future

“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Proof, Truth, Science

“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Advice, Life, Living, How To Handle Advice

“"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Paranoia, Fear, Mankind, The Human Condition

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com

Tagged: Uncertainty, Definitions, Rigidity, humanity, Human Nature