here are a few of my favourite quotes from that most celebrated book and its sequels...
(holy mackarel(sp?)!! no websites with any super cool quotes that come up easily... ).. (my resolve to not swear until the end of the month stands strong... )
so here's the celebrated 42 quote that i did find in 5 mins of searching.. (that i liked)..
Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes ...!"
"Of Life, the Universe, and Everything ..." said Deep Thought.
"Yes ...!"
"Is ..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes ...!"
"Is ..."
"Yes ...!!!...?"
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
---- and a few others..
"Yeah, listen, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second, my grandfather was Zaphod Beeblebrox the Third..."
"What?"
"There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine."
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"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display ..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
Sorry about the crappy formatting.. blogger's editor has issues.. and its too late to sit and fix the damn html right now.. :P
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