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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

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

Life, the Universe and Everything

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Douglas Adams: Citations en anglais

“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

Variante: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Speech http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/index.html at Digital Biota 2 http://www.cyberbiology.org/, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Contexte: There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.

“He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.”

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“We demand admission!”

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl. vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.”

Douglas Adams livre The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”

Douglas Adams livre The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.

“Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 7

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