Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
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I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
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No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
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The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck
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It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
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She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules
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Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.
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Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
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Besides the pastor, there were about five people who had access to the safe, ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.
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The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
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I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.
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I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.