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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979. The BBC Radio show was first broadcast in 1978, but this line was not in the radio show. It comes from the first book. Different spellings of the title were used in different editions, with and without the hyphen and/or apostrophe. In 2000 Douglas Adams said we should use the one word no hyphen with apostrophe format, see 2009 book The Rough Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like… ow… ound… round… ground! That's it! That's a good name — ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, 1978.
There is an art … to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, 1978. I’ve got the whole passage online.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the phrase, ‘as pretty as an airport.’ Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.
Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, 1988.
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