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“Where do you get the inspiration for your books?
I tell myself I can't have another cup of coffee till I've thought of an idea.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
I tell myself I can't have another cup of coffee till I've thought of an idea.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“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.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“A car, a blue convertible, sleek and desirable, came sweeping west out of Beverly Hills along the, as I understand it, gracious curves of Sunset Boulevard. Anybody seeing such a car would have wanted it. Obviously. It was designed to make you want it. If people had turned out not to want it very much, the makers would have redesigned it and redesigned it until they did. The world is now full of things like this, which is, of course, why everybody is in such a permanent state of want.”
― The Salmon of Doubt
― The Salmon of Doubt
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