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“Hate’s a terrible thing. It’s a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it’ll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the
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“On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
― Life, the Universe and Everything
“She approached me with enough sex appeal to stampede a businessmen’s lunch”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
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