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South Dakota… is like the world’s first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

Bill Bryson

People don’t talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain.
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Issues Rain Running
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.
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Autumn Fields Green Muskiness Sight Sumptuous
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Automobile Benefits Malls
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
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Doe Faces Sense Of Humor
This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.
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Additional Cleaveed Produced Something
So that buildings and structures you normally pass without a glance suddenly become arresting, even beautiful? Well, they seem to have that light in Australia nearly all the time.
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Arresting Building Country Nearly Structures Time
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment.
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Order Quests Tiny
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water.
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Coffee Rain Thinking Volumen Water
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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Energy Matter Waiting
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
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Illumination Light World
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve.
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Book Grammatically Men Remembered Writing
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel
Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact.
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Luck Sound Together
You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.
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Baseball Kids Successful
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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British Heritage Sometimes
Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to?
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Among Books Century Cities Critics Flower Leading Some

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