The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Marvin: You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids with GPP...
Arthur: Um... what's GPP?
Marvin: [despondently] Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you...?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Marvin: Freeze? I'm a robot. I'm not a refrigerator.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur Dent: I'm sorry, did you just say you needed my brain?
Fook: Yes, to complete the program.
Arthur Dent: Well, you can't have it, I'm using it!
Fook: Hardly.
Arthur Dent: Cheeky mouse...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ford: You're looking for the Ultimate Question.
Zaphod: Yep.
Ford: You.
Zaphod: Me.
Ford: Why?
Zaphod: No, I tried that: Why? 42. Doesn't work.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Marvin, Trillian, Ford, Arthur and Zaphod are being fired upon by Vogons - the others flee as Marvin only very slowly walks away]
Marvin: I don't know what you're all worried about. Vogons are the worst marksmen in the galaxy.
[he is shot in the back of the head]
Marvin: Now I've got a headache.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. More popular, certainly more successful than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-Three More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God

Person Anyway?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: The best drink in existance is the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which, is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon... wrapped around a large gold brick.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[last lines]
Marvin: Not that anyone cares what I say, but the restaurant is at the *other* end of the Universe.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[to Arthur, shortly after they first meet]
Trillian: I want to go somewhere I've never been, and I'd like to go with you.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Marvin: I've been talking to the main computer.
Arthur: And?
Marvin: It hates me.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur: A cup of tea would restore my normality.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: Space, says the introduction to the guide, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. And so on.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Vogon: Oh no, he's closed the gate from the inside, we'll have to go round.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Slartibartfast: [talking about the Earth] Best laid plans of mice.
Arthur: And men.
Slartibartfast: What?
Arthur: Best laid plans of mice and men.
Slartibartfast: Oh. No, I don't think men had much to do with it.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur: [Trillian has been captured by Vogons]
[bursts into a random Vogon building with Marvin's arm, hoping they think it's a gun]
Arthur: All right! Where is she!
[sees he's in a waiting room]
Vogon Secretary: Who? The Director of Robot Arm Repair?

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Book: [voice-over while Arthur and Ford are being tortured by being read Vogon poetry] Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poetmaster, Grunthos the Flatulent, of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience members died of

internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. The absolute worst poetry in the universe was written by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex. Thankfully it was destroyed when the earth was.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Ford: Didn't you think it was strange I was trying to shake hands with a car?
Arthur: I assumed you were drunk.
Ford: I thought cars were the dominant lifeform. I was trying to introduce myself.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Marvin: Life? Don't talk to me about life!

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Slartibartfast: I must warn you, we're going to pass through, well, a sort of gateway thing.
Arthur Dent: What?
Slartibartfast: It may disturb you. It scares the willies out of me.