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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Alcohol America American American Government Been Closed Criminal Criminals Down Fifth Government Handed Industry Just Largest More Never Pretty Production Prohibition Remarkable States Stroke Than Thing Time United United States Years

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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.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Barely Before Bulb Candle Dim Electricity Forget Good How Illumination Just Light Light Bulb Painfully Provides Single World

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I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Each Earth God Known Little Little Time Long Me Most Part People Plan Spend Stupid Stupid People Time

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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. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Also Anything Babe Babe Ruth Baseball Baseball Player Became Because Being Essentially Ever Good Good Guy Good Story Grew Guy Had He Human Human Being Just Kid Know Life Magnificent Most Orphan Player Really Respond Ruth Story Successful Then Tough Tough Life Up Who You

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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Appreciation Beauty Different Different Way Discover Drive Get Great Majestic More Mountains Much National National Park Outdoors Park Say Scale See Slower Smoky Some Sort Then Walk Way You

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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Awful Awful Lot Countryside Distressing England English Find Iowa Just Just Kind Kind Like Looks Lot Open Open Space Point Reaching Really Slowly Space Ways Where

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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Behaviour Continuum Litter Long Part See I See

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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Better Constantly Construct Disappointed Easily Know Me People Seems Things Time Very Want Whether

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America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: America Books Build Create Disappointment Great Malls Me Other Said Shopping Societies

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I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: American Because Britain Definitely Grew Happily Here Lived Up Very

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1951

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