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• Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up?
  Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it....
• effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Ha, but my life is but a box of wormgears.
  -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• I'm not going to be anybody's puppet, particularly not my own.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• What a wonderfully exciting cough! Do you mind if I join you?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• How can I tell...that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Not only is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a wholly remarkable book
  it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the "Celestial Home Care Omnibus", better selling than "Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity", and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who Is This God Person Anyway?...
• I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions.
  And its current conditions are not good. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...