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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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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Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
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Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
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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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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.