Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
BILL BRYSONA sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
More Bill Bryson Quotes
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Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn’t have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.
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But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.
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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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You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don’t want to live with them.
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Every 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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Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.
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In order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
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When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn’t come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards.
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America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me.
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Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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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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A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.
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Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men’s magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
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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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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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