The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Book · 6 characters · 415 quotes · 1993

Quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base thirteen."
Ford Prefect Humor
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"The answer is fairly simple. You just keep your eyes on the horizon."
Ford Prefect Wisdom
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"The problem is that I cannot think of what I want to think of."
Arthur Dent Imagination
A
"It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
Arthur Dent Humor
Z
"You know, you're a real kinda guy."
Zarniwoop Kindness
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"I've never understood why anybody has ever wanted to do this beastly painful activity."
Arthur Dent Humor
A
"You know how it is with writing. You just do it."
Arthur Dent Creativity
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"Nobody needs to know that we're here."
Arthur Dent Solitude
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"It's the people you meet."
Ford Prefect Friendship
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"Exactly! Between you, me, and that spoon, it's completely governed by the Government!"
Ford Prefect Politics
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"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
Zarniwoop Imagination
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"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"The answer is a towel."
Ford Prefect Wisdom
A
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
Arthur Dent Humor
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"You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?"
Ford Prefect Humor
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"The Total Perspective Vortex is the most terrible instrument of torture ever devised."
Zarniwoop Fear
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"Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle."
Zarniwoop Life
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"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
Arthur Dent Humor
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"I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base thirteen."
Ford Prefect Humor
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"The Guide's famous assertion about Earth's relative unimportance in the cosmos"
The Hitchhiker's Guide itself Philosophy
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"Don't panic"
The Hitchhiker's Guide itself Courage
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"The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42"
The Hitchhiker's Guide itself Philosophy
M
"I've been talking to the ship's computer. It hates me."
Marvin the Paranoid Android Relationships
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"Life, don't talk to me about life."
Marvin the Paranoid Android Life
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"I am at a considerable disadvantage. I am, after all, only a simple robot."
Marvin the Paranoid Android