Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"كانت الفكرة خيالية، بعيدة الاحتمال إلى حد الجنون. ولكنها، شأنها شأن معظم الأفكار الخيالية والبعيدة الاحتمال بجنون، كانت تستحق النظر فيها على الأقل بقدر ما تستحقه فكرة أكثر اعتيادية، جرى ليّ الحقائق بشدة لتلائمها."
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"The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit."
"كانت الفكرة خيالية، بعيدة الاحتمال إلى حد الجنون. ولكنها، شأنها شأن معظم الأفكار الخيالية والبعيدة الاحتمال بجنون، كانت تستحق النظر فيها على الأقل بقدر ما تستحقه فكرة أكثر اعتيادية، جرى ليّ الحقائق بشدة لتلائمها."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live."
"لقد كان رجلاً أُسند إليه العمل الذي مارسه في حياته لأنه لم يكن من يسأل الأسئلة – لا لصفة طبيعية من الحصافة بقدر ما كان لأنه ببساطة لم يخطر بباله قط أي أسئلة ليسألها... وبفضل هذه الصفة، ضمن لنفسه عملاً منتظماً ما دام يرغب في الحياة."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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