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    Douglas Adams
    “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: british, humor, science-fiction, social-commentary, thumb, towel
    3678 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
    32212 likes

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  • #5
    Douglas Adams
    “...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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    Douglas Adams
    “Ow! My brains!”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor, zaphod-beeblebrox
    202 likes

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  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: definition, doubt, humour, life, uncertainty
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    Jerry Spinelli
    “She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
    ― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
    tags: stargirl
    1105 likes

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  • #9
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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  • #10
    “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
    ― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
    tags: dreams, music
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
    THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
    FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
    WAS MUSIC”
    ― kurt vonnegut
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  • #12
    Leopold Stokowski
    “A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
    ― Leopold Stokowski
    tags: music
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
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    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor
    7899 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humor, perspective, science
    5880 likes

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  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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    Douglas Adams
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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    Douglas Adams
    “Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
    Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
    Arthur Dent: Oh.
    Ford Prefect: What happened?
    Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
    tags: temptation
    295 likes

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  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.”
    ― Douglas Adams
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  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: 42
    1200 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: music, power-of-music, universe
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
    tags: heartbreak, integrity, love
    1312 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “God's Final Message to His Creation:
    'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
    ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    tags: god, h2g2, hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
    861 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre
    tags: freedom, inspirational, literature
    2643 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humor
    457 likes

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  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: reading
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  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: book, inspirational
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