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A Life Quote By Douglas Adams

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

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Author Douglas Adams
Profession: Writer, Novelist, Screenriter and Playwright
Nationality: English
Born: 1952

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