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  1. A quotation from Douglas Adams

       FORD: And you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
       ARTHUR: Well what’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
       FORD: You ask a glass of water.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 1st” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-08)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1463/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #drinking #drunk #spacetravel #unpleasantness

  2. A quotation from Douglas Adams

       FORD: And you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
       ARTHUR: Well what’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
       FORD: You ask a glass of water.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 1st” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-08)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1463/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #drinking #drunk #spacetravel #unpleasantness

  3. A quotation from Douglas Adams

       FORD: And you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
       ARTHUR: Well what’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
       FORD: You ask a glass of water.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 1st” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-08)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1463/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #drinking #drunk #spacetravel #unpleasantness

  4. A quotation from Douglas Adams

       FORD: And you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
       ARTHUR: Well what’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
       FORD: You ask a glass of water.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 1st” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-08)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1463/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #drinking #drunk #spacetravel #unpleasantness

  5. A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

    «
    The majority always has its way in the end. So does the undertaker. But neither gains in pleasantness by the fact.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/mencken-hl/64367/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #inevitability #majority #mortician #undertaker #unpleasantness

  6. A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

    «
    The majority always has its way in the end. So does the undertaker. But neither gains in pleasantness by the fact.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/mencken-hl/64367/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #inevitability #majority #mortician #undertaker #unpleasantness