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There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern

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Douglas Adams
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Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1952 to 2001; Wikidata Q42, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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