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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

~Douglas Adams

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

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Topics: Believe Me Prove Still

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To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

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Topics: American Balance Better Claims Competing Europe Frank Freedom How Idea Lot More Seems Sometimes Than Think Those Though Understanding Want You Your I Think

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I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Dylan Guitar He Ideas Incredibly Intelligent Just Like Listening Mccartney Melody Musical Musician Myself Natural Note Out Paul Play Prolific Records Simon Someone Taught Terribly Who Working

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Time is bunk.

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Topics: Bunk Time

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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

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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.

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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Artistic Down Going High Nothing Novel Okay Saying Sitting Something Than Well Worse Worth Write

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I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

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Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

~Douglas Adams

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 11th, 1952

Died: May 11th, 2001

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