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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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.

“How do you feel?" he asked him.
"Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.”

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“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variant: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
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“I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.”

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“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe”

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“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”

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“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”

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“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

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“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

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“Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.”

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“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

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“Ow! My brains!”

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“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”

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“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

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“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”

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

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“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”

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“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”

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“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

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“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

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“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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