I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

—Douglas Adams

About Douglas Adams

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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 14 million copies in...

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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.

—Douglas Adams

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

—Douglas Adams

Anything that is in the world when you�re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that�s invented between when you�re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you�re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

—Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

—Douglas Adams

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

—Douglas Adams

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Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.

—Sylvain Reynard in Gabriel's Rapture

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

—Groucho Marx

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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I've never trusted anyone all the time. It's the people I care about the most that always seem to do the most damage.

—Jay Crownover in Rule

Sometimes life offers you something unexpected, and when it does, you have a responsibility to explore it.

—Katy Regnery in Playing for Love at Deep Haven

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