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Firsts Quotes by Bill Bryson
- The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to…
- My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease…
- Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and…
- 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…
- In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of…
- There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the…
- I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning…
- Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,…
- 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…
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