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When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Bryson

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I’m in exactly the same place I was when I left home – that, to me, is a miracle.
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Book Fire Home Laptop Miracle Place
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.
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Country Mastered Nation Ought
Traveling is more fun – hell, life is more fun – if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
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Fun Hell Life
It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.
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Average Consumed People Protein Today Typical
The amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is-whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze-perfect.
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Amazing Composition Perfect Season Together Words
I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It’s a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: ‘Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.
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Daily Mail Rain Weather
The people are immensely likable- cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian.
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Beer Cheerful Cities Coffee
That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
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Gone Late Mind Too
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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Ambitious Earth Visible
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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Age Along Lightning Rolling
There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Littles Thinking Toothpaste
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by ‘we’ I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement.
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Appreciate Book Mean
It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
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Achievement May T Nightmare Wors
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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English People Speak Trying
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 her, and here we are both in the same town.
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Husband Sleep Two
It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players – more if they are moderately restless.
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Burn Calories Moderately Shares Spectator

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