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Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it.

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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
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
We may be all there is. 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 Nightmare Simultaneously Worst
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it’s just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
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Circles Cities Typical
America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me.
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Comfort Country Seductive
“Croissant”: However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying “kwass-ohn,” the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.
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Croissants Home United States
I had spent the whole of my savings … on a suit for the wedding – a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn’t see my legs move.
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Fashion Moving Pieces
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.
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Always Better Excellent Food Shines
The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn’t just common to me; it’s anybody who’s funny.
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Common Real Veins
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
Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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Life Want Wonderful
I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed.
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Disappoint Knows Misanthropic
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don’t think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
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Mean Mistake Thinking
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
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Church Doors Yards
But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Country Memorable Travel
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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Advice Good Real World

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it.

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