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The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophisti...more

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God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least bein...more

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Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological ...more

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Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological ...more

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Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. ...more

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It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for u...more

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It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...""You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?""No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more ra...more

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One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid jus...more

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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

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The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I di...more

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One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own fathe...more

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A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead sing...more