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Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

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Don't panic and carry a towel

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He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its t...more

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No," he said, "look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen." And he sat. ...more

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He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consci...more

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The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupi...more

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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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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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Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least bein...more

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One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.

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She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. ...more

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Why, how much did you tip him?'Ford named a figure again.'I don't know how much it is,' said Arthur. 'What's it worth in pounds sterling? What could i...more

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They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The fi...more

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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. ...more