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I saw Keith R.A. DeCandido, which means we're now in for six more weeks of summer these quotes:

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, prologue

...one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.

This is her story.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 3:

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

The Salmon of Doubt:

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.