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  • Bill Bryson Quote - 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
  • Bill Bryson Quote - 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
  • Bill Bryson Quote - 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
  • Bill Bryson Quote - 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
  • Bill Bryson Quote - 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
  • Bill Bryson Quote - 18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
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18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Bill Bryson

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

    I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual.

    It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - 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.

    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.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.

    There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

    Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn’t have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature. Download This Image

    America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn’t have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

    Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. Download This Image

    This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.

    Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

    From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments – each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years.

    Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments – each of us a musty archive of adjustments, adaptations, modifications and providential tinkerings stretching back to 3,8 billion years.

    BILL BRYSON
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

    The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don’t altogether know, filled with matter we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.

    BILL BRYSON
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    Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings.

    BILL BRYSON
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    Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bill Bryson Quote - Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.

    Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.

    BILL BRYSON