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He has that real disadvantage which has arisen out of the modern worship of progress and novelty; and he thinks anything odd and new must be an advance.
“His eyes widened and his mouth dropped open a little. "You like puzzle books and you haven't read The Westing Game?!' he yelled.”
― The Parker Inheritance
― The Parker Inheritance
“This planet has - or rather 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 movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.”
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
― The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
― Fer-de-Lance
― Fer-de-Lance
“It is one of the fantasies of the twentieth century that believers are credulous people, sentimental people, and that you have to be a materialist and a scientist and a humanist to have a skeptical mind. But of course exactly the opposite is true. It is believers who can be astringent and skeptical, whereas people who believe seriously that this universe exists only in order to provide a theatre for man must take man with deadly seriousness. I believe myself that the age we are living in now will go down in history as one of the most credulous ever. How could anyone look at television advertisements without reaching that conclusion?”
― The End of Christendom
― The End of Christendom
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