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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams

Time Illusion Doubly Lunchtime

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is. Douglas Adams

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Douglas Adams

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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams

Reality Guide Definitive Frequently Inaccurate

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop. Dr. Seuss

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. E. B. White

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White

People Humor Few Analyzing Like Few People Frog Dies Interested Dissecting

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. E. B. White

Christmas Year Difficult Every Perceive More Through Becomes

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. E. B. White

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt

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