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In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Accident Club Did Digest Founded Guild Idle Like Literary Lot Magazines New New Yorker Period Reader Reading Stuck Time Well Were Yorker You

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I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Cricket Going Scoring Understand Why

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It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Actual British Countryside Cows Farmers Fields Like Riding Things Unthinkable

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I'm a great believer that you had to do everything you've done to have got to where you are.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Believer Done Everything Got Great Great Believer Had Where You

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I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and I can remember what it was like when your barber shop and your local stores weren't air conditioned, so it was hot when you went in them and they propped the doors open.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Air Air Conditioning Barber Before Conditioned Conditioning Days Doors Grew Hot Instance Like Local Open Really Remember Shop Stores The Doors Them Up Were You Your I Can

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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: About Depressing Ever Excited Find Future Gets Nobody Something

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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Am Baseball Cap English English People Entitled Genetically Look Most People Wear Whereas Wrong I Am I Can

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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Again Beat Been Book Company Even Go Go Home He Home Life Make Number Number Three Once Phone Point Quietly Ready See Since Spring Things Three Until Waiter You

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I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Books Dad Emily Full Grew Had Heights House Like Things Up

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I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Come Had Someone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 8th, 1951

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