Top 18 Magrathea Quotes
#1. Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state were you born?"
"In a state of innocence.
Joseph Heller
#2. You're crazy, Zaphod," he was saying, "Magrathea is a myth, a fairy story, it's what parents tell their kids about at night if they want them to grow up to become economists,
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#3. But so successful was this venture that Magrathea itself soon became the richest planet of all time and the rest of the Galaxy was reduced to abject poverty. And so the system broke down, the Empire collapsed,
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#4. I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
Patrick DeWitt
#5. I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
Elvis Presley
#6. Magrathea itself disappeared and its memory soon passed into the obscurity of legend. In these enlightened days, of course, no one believes a word of
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#7. Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#8. I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.
Franka Potente
#9. Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#10. You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.
Mariano Rivera
#11. All this Magrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. 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? All
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#13. Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.
Ernest Cline
#15. If God wasn't mightily amused by our humanness, I figure he'd have wiped us out a long time ago.
Jill Conner Browne
#16. Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
Loretta Young
#17. We all have things we regret, things we wish we could change, but we can't dwell on them. That's part of being a vampire now - learning to move on.
Julie Kagawa
#18. Whatever your tastes, Magrathea can cater for you. We are not proud.
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