The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.
BILL BRYSONThe one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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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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A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.
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I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened,
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Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
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All the things that are part of your heritage make you British – that makes this country what it is. It’s part of your history. And here, unlike America, it’s still living history.
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It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
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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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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 it had been mostly with foreboding.
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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 extinguishing it.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life…I can’t dispute it.
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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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Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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