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- I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever…
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
- More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
- The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to…
- Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are treated…
- 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.…
- If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you…
- There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American…
- Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
- English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
- Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
- Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
- There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
- 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…
- Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at…
- Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in…
- To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if…
- At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that…
- Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with…
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely…
- Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
- Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be…
- 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…
- I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically…
- To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle