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Douglas Adams

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What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.


— Douglas Adams


#science #science

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.


— Douglas Adams


#life

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.


— Douglas Adams


#self-assurance #self-confidence #self-confidence

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford


— Douglas Adams


#science #scifi #humor

He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.


— Douglas Adams


#hitchhiker #in-love #silly #love

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.


— Douglas Adams


#humor

You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.


— Douglas Adams


#kneebiter-in-u-s #life

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.


— Douglas Adams


#music

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.


— Douglas Adams


#cricket #description #game #play #life

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.


— Douglas Adams


#fitting-in #humor #humor






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The next year the radio series became the basis for a BBC television mini-series broadcast in six parts. When he died in 2001 in California he had been trying again to get the movie project started with Disney which had bought the rights in 1998. The screenplay finally got a posthumous re-write by Karey Kirkpatrick and the resulting movie was released in 2005.

". Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988) and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983) Last Chance to See (1990) and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. He was a staunch atheist famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate his view that the fine-tuned Universe argument for God was a fallacy.

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