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We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.
One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.
He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.
He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.
Don't blame you, " said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh should have a good time. Message repeats.
Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, so he assumed that the Total Perspective Vortex was not fun.
One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.
The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.
I’m afraid you cannot leave, ' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.
The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.
He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.
In an infinite Universe anything can happen, " said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.
After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.
When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend.
As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.
And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!
Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.
He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.
His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.
Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.
Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.
I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.
You know because you’ve been it, and I know because I’m dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective.
The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh d—''And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.
It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.
Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.
Perhaps they are singing songs to you, ' he said, 'and I just think they’re asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.
Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. "Go to it, " it said, "and good luck.
the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.
The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago, ' continued Marvin.
But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.
He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.