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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Original Radio Scripts

by Douglas Adams

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Jul 29, 2023 03:57PM

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Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)

by Noam Chomsky

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Jul 16, 2022 03:34AM

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Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

by Iain M. Banks

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“One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mike and Psmith

tags: incoherence, sleep

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“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

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“She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

tags: humor

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“Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves

tags: appearance, face, humor, mirror, ugliness

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“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: dream, grim-reality, hope, hopes, real-life

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