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  • #1
    Douglas Adams
    “God's Final Message to His Creation:
    'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #2
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #3
    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #4
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

  • #5
    Neil Gaiman
    “Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Ijeoma Oluo
    “Systemic racism is a machine that runs whether we pull the levers or not, and by just letting it be, we are responsible for what it produces. We have to actually dismantle the machine if we want to make change.”
    Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

  • #8
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.”
    H. P. Lovecraft

  • #9
    David Quammen
    “Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.”
    David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #11
    Ijeoma Oluo
    “Perhaps one of the most brutal of white male privileges is the opportunity to live long enough to regret the carnage you have brought upon others.”
    Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

  • #12
    William Golding
    “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #14
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #15
    David Sedaris
    “It's just a penis, right? Probably no worse for you than smoking.”
    David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
    Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

  • #18
    Anthony Burgess
    “We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
    Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

  • #19
    Roald Dahl
    “You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. You went there to work. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous anymore.”
    Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”
    Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.
    He looked at me as if I were stupid.
    'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.”
    Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.”
    Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

  • #25
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #26
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #27
    “Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.”
    Garth Nix, Sabriel

  • #28
    “I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.”
    Garth Nix, Sabriel

  • #29
    Roald Dahl
    “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
    Roald Dahl, The Witches

  • #30
    Catherynne M. Valente
    “You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.”
    Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless



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