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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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Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
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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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Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.
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I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.
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No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space.
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It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
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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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My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
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I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.
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The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.
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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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