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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Time is bunk.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.