Douglas Adams: Frasi in inglese (pagina 10)

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“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood… blood… blood… blood…”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Origine: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”

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Origine: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“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.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Origine: Life, the Universe and Everything

“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Origine: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Contesto: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”

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Douglas Adams libro Ristorante al termine dell'Universo

Origine: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 17

“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Origine: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”

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Douglas Adams libro The Meaning of Liff

Origine: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”

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Douglas Adams libro Ristorante al termine dell'Universo

Variante: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Origine: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”

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Douglas Adams

Origine: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“And so the Universe ended.”

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Douglas Adams libro Ristorante al termine dell'Universo

Origine: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

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Douglas Adams libro So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Origine: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Origine: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

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Douglas Adams libro Ristorante al termine dell'Universo

Origine: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul