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Quotes from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency — Douglas Adams

1952–2001 England

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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

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.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.