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The universe is not only queerer than we suppose it is queerer than we can suppose

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Bill Bryson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 8
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South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
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As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.
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Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
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... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.
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The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
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Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response.
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I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.
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A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.
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That's the trouble with losing your mind by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
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Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.
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I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
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I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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