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From Quotes by Bill Bryson
- Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
- 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.…
- Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all…
- It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
- I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
- There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm…
- It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete…
- I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a…
- So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me…
- But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud…
- Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how…
- And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly…
- Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing…
- It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at…
- Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
- When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It…
- Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering…
- Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was…
- Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent…
- I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.
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