Douglas Adams: Frases en inglés

Douglas Adams era escritor y humorista británico. Frases en inglés.
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“And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.”

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Fuente: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Fuente: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.”

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“How many roads must a man walk down?”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”

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“Who is this god person anyway?”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Fuente: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.”

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Douglas Adams libro Informe sobre la Tierra: fundamentalmente inofensiva

Fuente: Mostly Harmless

“In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Fuente: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“What was the self-sacrifice?"
I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes."
Why was that self-sacrifice?"
Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly.
I think we have different value systems."
Well mine's better.”

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Douglas Adams libro Informe sobre la Tierra: fundamentalmente inofensiva

Fuente: Mostly Harmless

“I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.”

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Douglas Adams Guía del autoestopista galáctico

Fuente: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”

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“I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.”

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Douglas Adams libro El restaurante del fin del mundo

Fuente: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”

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Douglas Adams libro El salmón de la duda

Fuente: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Contexto: My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

“The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.”

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Douglas Adams libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Fuente: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.”

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Douglas Adams libro El restaurante del fin del mundo

Fuente: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe