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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?


— Douglas Adams


#believe #bottom #enough #fairies #garden

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.


— Douglas Adams


#dreams

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.


— Douglas Adams


#science #humor

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.


— Douglas Adams


#learn #live #rate #you

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.


— Douglas Adams


#philosophy

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.


— Douglas Adams


#zaphod-beeblebrox #ego

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.


— Douglas Adams


#rightness #happy

This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.


— Douglas Adams


#sci-fi #life

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.


— Douglas Adams


#intelligence #intelligence

Reality is frequently inaccurate.


— Douglas Adams


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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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