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Quotes

• Don't Panic.

• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

• One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?" At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

• Arthur Dent: "[...] I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
  Ford Prefect: "Why what did she tell you?"
  Arthur Dent: "I don't know, I didn't listen."

• He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.