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“If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Irishman who actually was stupid, a mother-in-law...”
“Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. These are lifes little learning experiences, he said. You know what a learning ...”
“This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.”
“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.”
“So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I...”
“We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford."...""And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.""I care about lots of things," said Slar...”
“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.”