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  1. Douglas Adams _ The Restaurant at the End of

    Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
    book-quotehitchhiker-s-guideh2g2

  2. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    He would have felt safe if alongside the Dentrassis' underwear, the piles of Sqornshellous mattresses and the man from Betelgeuse holding up a small yellow fish and offering to put it in his ear he had been able to see just a small packet of cornflakes. But he couldn't, and he didn't feel safe.
    book-quotefishcornflakesh2g2

  3. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Janx Spirit : Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking games that are played in the hyperspace ports that serve the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta. The game is not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and is played like this: Two contestants sit at either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them. Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit - as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song : "Oh don't give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit No, don't you give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit" Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent – who would then have to drink it. The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again. Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power. As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.
    book-quotehitchhiker-s-guideh2g2

  4. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side...""No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?""Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens.""I can imagine.
    book-quoteh2g2hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxymarvin

  5. Douglas Adams _ Life, the Universe and

    Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
    book-quotehumorhumourscience-fiction

  6. Douglas Adams _ So Long, and Thanks for All

    It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
    book-quotehumorlogich2g2

  7. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
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  8. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
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  9. Douglas Adams _ So Long, and Thanks for All

    If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn't exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar."
    book-quoteh2g2hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy

  10. Douglas Adams _ Life, the Universe and

    Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, {Marvin} was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby.Marvin droned,He paused to gather the artistic and emotional strength to tackle the next verse.
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  11. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
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  12. Douglas Adams _ The Restaurant at the End of

    The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
    book-quotehumorh2g2hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
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