"And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"
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"I ushered souls into the next world. I was the grave of all hope. I was the ultimate reality. I was the assassin against whom no lock would hold. - "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?""
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"Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot."
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"There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.' I've never, ever been able to do one. I remember one occasion at Warwick University, when Jack and Ian were at their wits' end because I couldn't get it. I felt totally ashamed."
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"Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human."
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"It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting."
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"I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
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"And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
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"A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits."
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"He's out of his depth on a wet pavement."
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"I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment."
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"Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain."
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"When all else failed, she tried being reasonable."
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"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."
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"Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is."
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"Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber."
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"All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train."
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"There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime."
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"When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth."
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"Nothing but dust and fundamentalists."
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