Autobiography Quote by Arthur Smith

“Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.”

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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.

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I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

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