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Which Quotes by Bill Bryson
- The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
- 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…
- I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
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