Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Fifteen years can be a long or a short time, depending upon whether one is immortal or not.”
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Thirteenth Fey (p. 39)
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American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939Related quotes
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: Life is short.
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