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I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.
Bill Bryson
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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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Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
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You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
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Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
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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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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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The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me it's anybody who's funny.
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In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
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Des Moines is like your typical American city it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
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In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.
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In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: I say, is that a sn--
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In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
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Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
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The universe is not only queerer than we suppose it is queerer than we can suppose
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To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
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There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.
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