Douglas Adams: Frasi in inglese (pagina 15)

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“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”

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Douglas Adams libro Ristorante al termine dell'Universo

Origine: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

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Variante: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

“For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.”

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

Origine: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.”

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“He sniggered.
He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.”

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

Origine: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Origine: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Speech http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/index.html at Digital Biota 2 http://www.cyberbiology.org/, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
Origine: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Contesto: There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.

“He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Origine: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“We demand admission!”

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“And that, apart from a flurry of sensational newspaper reports which exposed him as a fraud, then trumpeted him as the real thing so that they could have another round of exposing him as a fraud again and then trumpeting him as the real thing again, until they got bored and found a nice juicy snooker player to harass instead, was that.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U. S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of "WFT-II, unlike such major U. S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus …"”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

but it was a start.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.”

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Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)

“You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 3

“LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl. vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.”

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Douglas Adams libro The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”

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Douglas Adams libro The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“She held the car grimly to the road as it negotiated the bends with considerable difficulty and the straight sections with only slightly less. The car had landed her in court on one occasion when one of its front wheels had sailed off on a little expedition of its own and nearly caused an accident. The police witness in court had referred to her beloved Citroën as "the alleged car" and the name had subsequently stuck. She was particularly fond of the alleged car for many reasons. If one of its doors, for instance, fell off she could put it back on herself, which is more than you could say for a BMW.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 12

“Or maybe she decided that an evening with your old tutor would be blisteringly dull and opted for the more exhilarating course of washing her hair instead. Dear me, I know what I would have done. It's only lack of hair that forces me to pursue such a hectic social round these days.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”

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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.

“It was a couple of days before Kate Schechter became aware of any of these things, or indeed of anything at all in the outside world.
She passed the time quietly in a world of her own in which she was surrounded as far as the eye could see with old cabin trunks full of past memories in which she rummaged with great curiosity, and sometimes bewilderment. Or, at least, about a tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid, and often painful or uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which surprised her. Insofar as she recognised at all that she was dreaming, she realised that she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 2

“Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 7