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Douglas Noel Adams, né le 11 mars 1952 à Cambridge et mort le 11 mai 2001 à Santa Barbara, est un écrivain et scénariste britannique.

Il est surtout connu pour son œuvre Le Guide du voyageur galactique , une saga de science-fiction humoristique dont il scénarisa le feuilleton radio original puis écrivit la « trilogie en cinq volumes » de romans. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. mars 1952 – 11. mai 2001   •   Autres noms Дуглас Адамс
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“conventional photon drive.”

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams Citations

“Glapitonner: profondément ému par le récit d'une tragédie personnelle.”

Life, the Universe and Everything

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Douglas Adams: Citations en anglais

“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

Douglas Adams livre The Salmon of Doubt

Variante: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Don't Panic.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variante: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Contexte: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Variante: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

Douglas Adams livre Mostly Harmless

Variante: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Source: Mostly Harmless

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

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