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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)

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, "Fit the 1st" (BBC Radio) (1978-03-08) - Adams, Douglas | WIST Quotations

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. This was adapted into the novelization, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ch. 6 (1979), in close to the…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Nov 2, 2023

A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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

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A Little Book in C Major, ch. 3, § 11 (1916) - Mencken, H. L. | WIST Quotations

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

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