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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 video game, and 2005 feature film.

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“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”

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“Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.”

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“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

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“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

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“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.”

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“I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style”

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“If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”

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“The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists…”

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“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

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“… they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.”

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“I don’t know what I’m looking for.”
“What not?”
“Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.”

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“Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.”

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“The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!”

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“I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!”

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“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”

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“The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this:”

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“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”

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“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

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“The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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