“The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.”

—  Douglas Adams, book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

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