"He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it."
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"SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom."
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"Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression."
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"Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
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"Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."
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"Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps."
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"I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she.'" "What did she say?" "She hit me on the head with the rock again," Ford responded curtly. "I think i can confirm that was my daughter." "Sweet kid." "You have to get to know her," said Arthur. "She eases up, does she?" "No, but you get a better sense of when to duck."
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"I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had."
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"Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?"
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"Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously."
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"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place."
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"and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks."
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"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
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"Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around."
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"And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
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"Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are."
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"Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast."
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"Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer."
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"'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'"
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"Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms."
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