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• You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!
  "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!...
• Life is wasted on the living.
  -- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", -- by Douglas Adam...
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
  -- Ford Prefect,in Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_...
• Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is forty-two.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• So this is it," said Arthur, "we are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except.
  ..no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision....
• One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard
  pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid....