“Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.”

— Douglas Adams, book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

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