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#1. Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life.
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#2. And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.
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#3. Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.
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#5. Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.
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#6. Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life, are you?" "You call this life?" "You're beginning to sound like Marvin." "Marvin's the clearest thinker I know.
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#7. In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
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#8. If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
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#9. This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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#10. The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.
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#11. Life ... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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#12. I have the brain the size of a planet and you want to talk to me about life
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#13. I live in what are known as hopes. I hope for fascinating and remunerative cases, my secretary hopes that I will pay her, her landlord hopes that she will produce some rent, the Electricity Board hopes that he will settle their bill, and so on. I find it a wonderfully optimistic way of life.
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#14. Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
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#15. Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
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#16. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
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#17. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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#18. Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.;
'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment
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#19. We have a saying up here. 'Life is wasted on the living.
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#20. He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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#21. A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
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#22. 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. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.
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#24. Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.
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#25. He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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#26. The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
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#27. The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.
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#28. He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes".
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#29. Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.
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#30. I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style
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#31. Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
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#32. So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
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#34. The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is ... 42!
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#35. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
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#36. A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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#37. It's easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.
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#39. It appeared then to be at least partially satisfied. Whereas before it had been a cross dodo, it was at least now a cross, fed dodo, which was probably about as much as it could hope for in this life.
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#40. It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.
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#41. If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.
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#42. We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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#43. Life was too short, the weather too fine, and the world too full of interesting and exciting pitfalls.
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#44. The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.
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#45. Try and understand his problem," insisted Ford. "Here he is, poor lad, his entire life's work is stamping around, throwing people off spaceships ... " "And shouting," added the guard.
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#46. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
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#47. Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
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#48. Her remark would have commanded greater attention had it been generally realized that human beings were only the third most intelligent life form present on the planet Earth,
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#49. We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.
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#50. The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.
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#51. Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.
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#52. He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.
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#53. If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.
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#54. A carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.
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#55. Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
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#57. Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it. 'It's just life,' they say.
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#59. Life!" urged Fook. "The Universe!" said Lunkwill. "Everything!" they said in chorus.
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#60. Life, will be a very great deal less weird without you!
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#61. Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
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#62. He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.
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#63. We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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#64. Ah ... ! What's happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get a grip now ... oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it?
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#65. The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.
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#66. All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
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#67. And we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere ... and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
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#68. Arthur prodded the mattress nervously and then sat on it himself: in fact he had very little to be nervous about, because all mattresses grown in the swamps of Sqornshellous Zeta are very thoroughly killed and dried before being put to service. Very few have ever come to life again.
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#69. It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down.
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#70. The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.
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