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Douglas Adams
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.

And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables, whereupon he was taken away, locked up, wrote a book and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams
“In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.”
Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams
“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”
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Douglas Adams
“I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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