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I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.


— Douglas Adams


#career

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.


— Douglas Adams


#men

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.


— Douglas Adams


#grammar #grammar-humor #humor #humour #science-fiction

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?


— Douglas Adams


#beauty-in-literature #beauty-in-nature #wodehouse #beauty

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.


— Douglas Adams


#religion #faith

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.


— Douglas Adams


#hitchihikers #humor #philosophy #humor

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.


— Douglas Adams


#humor #laugh #funny

Conceited little mega-puppy.


— Douglas Adams


#science-fiction #humor

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?


— Douglas Adams


#zaphod-beeblebrox #humor

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.


— Douglas Adams


#art






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The next year the radio series became the basis for a BBC television mini-series broadcast in six parts. When he died in 2001 in California he had been trying again to get the movie project started with Disney which had bought the rights in 1998. The screenplay finally got a posthumous re-write by Karey Kirkpatrick and the resulting movie was released in 2005.

". Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988) and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983) Last Chance to See (1990) and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. He was a staunch atheist famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate his view that the fine-tuned Universe argument for God was a fallacy.

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