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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.


— Douglas Adams


#life

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.


— Douglas Adams


#life

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.


— Douglas Adams


#humor #life #meaning #question #humor

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.


— Douglas Adams


#science #humor

Ow! My brains!


— Douglas Adams


#zaphod-beeblebrox #humor

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.


— Douglas Adams


#humor #tea #humor

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.


— Douglas Adams


#ford #insanity #lemons #life

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.


— Douglas Adams


#psychology #psychology

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.


— Douglas Adams


#life

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.


— Douglas Adams


#logic






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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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