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“Zaphod was so surprised that they had to shoot him again before he fell down.”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Kimsenin kuklası olmayacağım,özellikle de kendimin.”
― Douglas Adams, By Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Box set

“Cela faisait un maintenant trente secondes qu'Arthur essayait, sans succès de dire "Où avez-vous trouvé ça ?" d'un ton brusque et légèrement interloqué.
Finalement, l'instant se présenta mais il le rata d'une milliseconde.
"Où avez-vous trouvez ça ?" dit Fenchurch d'un ton brusque et légèrement interloqué.
Arthur jeta sur Fenchurch un regarde brusque et légèrement interloqué et lança "Quoi ? Tu as déjà vu des trucs comme ça ?
-Oui. J'en ai un. Ou plutôt, j'en ai eu un. Russell me l'a piqué pour y mettre ses balles de golf. Je ne sais pas d'où il venait , ce que je sais, c'est que j'étais en rogne après Russell pour me l'avoir piqué. Pourquoi, tu en as un, toi aussi ?
-Oui, il était..."
Ils se rendirent compte l'un et l'autre que le regard de Wonko le Sain passait brusquement de l'un à l'autre, tout en essayant dans l'intervalle de paraître interloqué.
"Vous aussi, vous en avez un ?”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“desultory”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have a chaperone.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“42, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. This Answer was first calculated by the supercomputer Deep Thought after seven and a half million years of thought. This shocking answer resulted in the construction of an even larger supercomputer, named Earth, which was tasked with determining what the question was in the first place.”
― Douglas Adams

“Now the world has gone to bed,’ Marvin droned, ‘Darkness won’t engulf my head, ‘I can see by infra-red, ‘How I hate the night.’ He”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house was there, but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that run west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in one entry as “junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what’s that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo,” and in another, written only hours later as “being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth. Plus the air is, for some reason, yellow.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“His name was Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose, as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a purpose and it did at least keep him on the move.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“„Calitatea oricărui sfat pe care îl are oricine de oferit trebuie să fie evaluată raportat la calitatea vieții pe care acela chiar o duce.”
― Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series Douglas Adams Collection 5 Books Bundle

“Arthur Dent, you are not merely a cruel and heartless man, you are also staggeringly tactless.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Life was, in short, ridiculously easy and for a while at least they were able to cope with the problems of aimlessness and isolation by deciding to ignore them.”
― Douglas Adams

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without proper training.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The sky which had started out with such verve and spirit in the morning was beginning to lose its concentration and slip back into its normal English condition,”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“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!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It was instantly clear what he was doing. He was contemplating life. He was hanging out. It was quite obvious. Or rather, the temptation to find it quite obvious was absolutely overwhelming.

They look like humans, they move like humans, they hold things in their fingers like humans, the expressions which play across their faces and in their intensely human-looking eyes are expressions that we instinctively feel we recognize as human expressions. We look them in the face and we think, “We know what they’re like,” but we don’t. Or rather, we actually block off any possible glimmering of understanding of what they may be like by making easy and tempting assumptions.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This planet has – or had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper which were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“You’re a jerk, Dent,” said the boy, “a complete kneebiter.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Today was the day; today was the day when they would realize what Zaphod had been up to. Today was what Zaphod Beeblebrox’s presidency was all about.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Number Two’s eyes narrowed and became what are known in the Shouting and Killing People trade as cold slits, the idea presumably being to give your opponent the impression that you have lost your glasses or are having difficulty keeping awake. Why this is frightening is an, as yet, unresolved problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Benim mutluluk kapasitemi," diye ekledi, "bir kibrit kutusuna sığdırabilirsin, hem de içindeki kibritleri bile çıkarmadan.”
― Douglas Adams, Guide to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The man, he believed with an instant effortlessness which would have impressed even a Scientologist, must be a God of some kind to arouse such fervour.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“He stumbled uncertainly after her. The encircling torch beams were drooping now slightly as if they were abdicating to this strange, quiet girl who alone in this Universe of dark confusion seemed to know what she was doing.”
― Douglas Adams

“Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer’s movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer’s movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer’s movement in restaurants.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He had lived in it for about three years, ever since he had moved out of London because it made him nervous and irritable. He was about thirty as well, tall, dark haired and never quite at ease with himself. The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about. He worked in local radio, which he always used to tell his friends was a lot more interesting than they probably thought. It was, too – most of his friends worked in advertising.”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It seemed to him that he was one of the thoughts of the Universe and that the Universe was a thought of his.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Todo lo que ocurre, ocurre. Todo lo que al ocurrir, origina otra cosa, hace que ocurra otra cosa más. Todo lo que al ocurrir, vuelve a originarse, ocurre de nuevo. Aunque todo ello no ocurre necesariamente en orden cronológico.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he’d come to clean the windows and he said no, he’d come to demolish the house.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy