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"Maybe, Who cares?" said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. "Perhaps I’m old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied."

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Picador, London, 2002 [first published in 1979]
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