“Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?”

—  Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

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