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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!...
• In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them
  and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• The Guide says there is an art to flying,' said Ford,`or at least a knack.
  The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss....
• So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?
  I asked. He blinked at me as if I were stupid. Well what do you think you do?...
• So we're not home and dry," he said. "We could not even be said," replied Ford, "to be home and vigorously towelling ourselves off.
  -- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• I got into an elevator at work and this man followed in after me.
  .. I pushed '1' and he just stood there... I said 'Hi, where you going?...