Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
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High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.
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Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him.
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It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules
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It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear
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No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
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The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
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Besides the pastor, there were about five people who had access to the safe, ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.
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Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
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Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
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Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'
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The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck
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One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.