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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.


— Douglas Adams


#humor

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.


— Douglas Adams


#humor

Life is wasted on the living.


— Douglas Adams


#living #wasted

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?


— Douglas Adams


#fish #i #i think #judge #nice

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.


— Douglas Adams


#h #business

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.


— Douglas Adams


#novel

Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.


— Douglas Adams


#play

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.


— Douglas Adams


#science-fiction #life

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!


— Douglas Adams


#humour #jokes #humour

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.


— Douglas Adams


#political #politics #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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