Tag: Douglas Adams
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I remember very little about writing the first series of ‘Hitchhiker’s.’ It’s almost as if someone else wrote it.
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I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
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Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
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