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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 felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
we have normality, I repeat we have normality.” She turned her microphone off—then turned it back on—with a slight smile and continued: “Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before—
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
“What, are you crazy?” “It’s a possibility I haven’t ruled out yet,” said Zaphod quietly. “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons,
I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
