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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls.

Bill Bryson

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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Funny Humor Race
Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.
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Cosmopolitanism Dynamic Simultaneously Socks Suits Wealth
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
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Bored Boring Moments
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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Country Heritage History Thing
Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.
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Country Deepest Land Look Wall
Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings – every bit of it.
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Evening Maps Shower Summer Survey
Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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Boston Childhood Insane
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
Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
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Memorable Pessimism Travel
I think it’s only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
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City Crazy Own Thinking
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn’t wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.
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Moving Otherwise Perspective Wait Waiting
A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all.
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Another Bundle Creation Material Passed
Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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Dog Earth Want
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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British Heritage Sometimes
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.
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Kind Mean Rooms
We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?
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Frustrating Infinite Live Person Possibly

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