# Quote — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

> He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

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> "What's up?"
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> "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

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> "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

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> "'''This must be Thursday," said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

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