That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
BILL BRYSONEvery last bit of it, good and bad – old churches, country lanes, people saying ‘Mustn’t grumble,’ and ‘I’m terribly sorry but,’ people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers.
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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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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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It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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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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Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
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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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Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
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The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
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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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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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I’m not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I’m fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I’m actually quite shy and reserved.
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A belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding.
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The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
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