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“The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. ‘For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

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― Douglas Adams, The Private Life of Genghis Khan

“The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood”
― Douglas Adams

“Bypasses are devices which allow some people to drive from point A to point B very fast whilst other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people of point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people of point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The argument goes something like this: Ì refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“He paused and maneuvered his thoughts. It was like watching oil tankers doing three-point turns in the English Channel.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The mattress globbered. This is the noise made by a live, swamp-dwelling mattress that is deeply moved by a story of personal tragedy.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“You will then learn all sorts of things about how to control your flight, your speed, your maneuverability, and the trick usually lies in not thinking too hard about whatever you want to do, but just allowing it to happen as if it were going to anyway.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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― Douglas Adams, Doctor Who: Shada

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― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy

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― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“A poesia vogon é, como todos sabem, a terceira pior do Universo. [...] Durante um recital, seu Mestre Poeta, Gruntos, o Flatulento, leu sua "Ode ao pedacinho de massa de vidraceiro verde que encontrei no meu sovaco numa manhã de verão", quatro pessoas na plateia morreram de hemorragia interna, e o presidente do Conselho Centro-Galáctico de Marmelada Artística só conseguiu sobreviver roendo uma de suas próprias pernas completamente. [...] Gruntos já ia começar a ler sua epopeia [...] quando seu próprio intestino grosso, numa tentativa desesperada de salvar a vida e a civilização, pulou para cima, passando pelo pescoço de Gruntos, e o estrangulou.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Illustrated Version, Hardcover)

“The Universe-some information to help you live in it.

1 AREA: Infinite.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite."

Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across bere.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“La Guía del autoestopista galáctico también menciona el alcohol. Dice que la mejor bebida que existe es el detonador gargárico pangaláctico.

Dice que el efecto producido por una copa de detonador gargárico pangaláctico es como que le aplasten a uno los sesos con una raja de limón doblada alrededor de un gran lingote de oro.

La Guía también indica en qué planetas se prepara el mejor detonador gargárico pangaláctico, cuánto hay que pagar por una copa y qué organizaciones voluntarias existen para ayudarle a uno a la rehabilitación posterior.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Complete Radio Series

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― Douglas Adams, Novel Unit: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy (BBC MP3 CD Audio) by Douglas Adams

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― Douglas Adams, Guide to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He picked up a berry and looked at it. It was a rough, mottled purple and green, and it looked like something the DuPont Corporation had rejected as being not colourfast enough. He sniffed it cautiously, and as he had just been thinking, the word ‘poisonous’ struck him as being ugly and pejorative, so he let it roll off the end of his tongue. He thought of the rainbow. He thought of the pearly light that so often played over the surface of the moon, and then he thought of death, and of the old Ford Prefect maxim about eating: ‘If you don’t know what it is, don’t touch it. If you do know what it is, don’t eat it.’ He pulled himself together, however, and found himself firm in his resolve that he would, indeed, eat the berry, but only if it was absolutely clear that the alternative was dying of starvation.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Another world, another day, another dawn.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It’s no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won’t. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you’re halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it’s going to hurt if you fail to miss it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“let us go. Let us leave this festering hellhole. Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Now,”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Ignore all considerations of your own weight and simply let yourself waft higher.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The Answer to the Great Question...Of Life, the Universe and Everything...Is...Forty-two.

...I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that is definitely the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Illustrated Version, Hardcover)

“— (...) Poproszę cztery lekko wysmażone steki i, jeśli można, duchem! Nie jedliśmy od pięciuset siedemdziesięciu sześciu miliardów lat!
Zwierzę dość niepewnie wstało. Wydało z siebie przyjazny bulgot.
— Bardzo rozsądny wybór, proszę pana, jeśli mogę tak powiedzieć. Doskonały. Już pędzę się zastrzelić. — Zwierzę odwróciło się, zdążyło jednak przyjaźnie mrugnąć do Artura. — Niech się pan nie denerwuje, zrobię to możliwie najbardziej humanitarnie.”
― Douglas Adams, Restauracja na końcu wszechświata. Życie, wszechświat i cała reszta

“Chyba nie. Nigdy nie poszłam i nie spróbowałam naprawdę. Nie spróbowałam naprawdę. Oto moje życie. Nie zrobić nic naprawdę.”
― Douglas Adams, Cześć, i dzięki za ryby. W zasadzie niegroźna

“Se um sujeito quer passar metade da vida pendurado de cabeça para baixo num poço lamacento e adorando um pedaço de pau, isso é problema dele, contanto que ele não diga que todo mundo deveria fazer o mesmo.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 6 Book Set

“Never again will we wake up in the morning and think, Who am I? What is my purpose in life? Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don’t get up and go to work?”

“Em uma escala cósmica, faz alguma diferença se hoje eu resolver não me levantar e não ir ao trabalho?”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxset: Guide to the Galaxy / The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and ... and Thanks for all the Fish / Mostly Harmless

“I freewheel a lot. I get an idea to do something, and, hey, why not, I do it. I reckon I’ll become President of the Galaxy, and it just happens, it’s easy. I decide to steal this ship. I decide to look for Magrathea, and it all just happens. Yeah, I work out how it can best be done, right, but it always works out. It’s like having a Galacticredit card which keeps on working though you never send off the cheques.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy