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Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

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

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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 ...more

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Don't Panic

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Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

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The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophisti...more

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I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that...more

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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning ...more

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You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'You'd think someone would notice, or think it was od...more

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The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

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When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they...more

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If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Ir...more

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After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of us and asked us if we were transit passengers. We said...more

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Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who ...more