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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.”

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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Life, the Universe and Everything

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Douglas Adams: Citations en anglais

“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Contexte: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”

Douglas Adams livre The Meaning of Liff

Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Variante: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“And so the Universe ended.”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

Douglas Adams livre So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”

Douglas Adams livre Un cheval dans la salle de bains

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”

Douglas Adams livre The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variante: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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