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• Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer.
  I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible....
• Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
  -- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency...
• Very deep. You should send that into Reader's Digest, they've got a page for people like you.
  -- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency...
• Come, let us go. Let us leave this festering hellhole.
  Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable....
• If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there .
  . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple....
• I reject that philosophy. The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
  -- Douglas Adams through Dirk Gently...
• 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...
• The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
  -- Douglas Adams -- Mostly Harmle...
• That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
  -- Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adam...