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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2) QUOTES

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2) QUOTES

1 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

2 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

3 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

4 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

5 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

6 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

7 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

8 " People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

9 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

10 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)

11 " 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.
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On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

12 " 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. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

13 " He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

14 " I don't go to mythical places with strange men. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

15 " Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

16 " The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down. Michelangelo would have been distressed by its proportions, which were neither lofty nor shaped by any noticeable inner harmony or symmetry, other than that all parts of the room were pretty much equally full of old coffee mugs, shoes and brimming ashtrays, most of which were sharing their tasks with each other. The walls were painted in almost precisely that shade of green which Rafaello Sanzio would have bitten off his own right hand at the wrist rather than use, and Hercules, on seeing the room, would probably have returned half an hour later armed with a navigable river. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

17 " Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

18 " Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

19 " Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

20 " I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. "

― Douglas Adams , The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)